July 1980
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Articles
The Law: Collect $230 and Go to Jail
The strange case of William James Rummel, whose “felonies” included the failure to fix an airconditioner.
Party of One: Me First
The Politics of Grain
The United States has been subsidizing the rest of the world with its grain—is it time we took a lesson from OPEC?
The Cruelest Game
Iran gave us not only the Ayatollah Khomeini and the jumbo pistachio nut but also backgammon, a game of skill and chance that attracts some 70 million addicts around the world. One of them here describes the lure and hazards of the global backgammon circuit.
Making It Through Hard Times
The Surround: James Wright Spoken-to at Sundown
Poppa's Books
Latin America: The Revolutionary Bishops
In lands where the Church has long supported the status quo, a cadre of clergymen defies persecution and exercises the politics of liberation.
A History of Night
The Angel
The Moon
The Doomsday Scenario: Confessions of a Swiss Banker
Who He Slept By: An Atlantic First
Fog
The Campaign for the North Meadow
Bellum omnia contra omnes.—Thomas Hobbes on man in the state of nature
Pound of Pasta
A Thinking Man's Kurt Vonnegut
Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy
Joshua Then and Now
Acts of Union: Reports on Ireland, 1973-79
Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass
Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
A Confederacy of Dunces
Finding a Girl in America
Saga America
Byron's Letters & Journals; 'A Heart for Every Fate'
The Revolution Remembered
Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black
Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last
Bluebeard
American Folk Painters of Three Centuries
Argonauts to Astronauts
Errata
The Atlantic Puzzler
