September 1981

Articles

• Oil, Fish, and Georges Bank

  The questions on Georges are: Is there oil here? And if so, what will it do to the fish?

  William H. MacLeish

• Resources: Oil, Fish, and Georges Bank

  The questions on Georges are: Is there oil here? And if so, what will it do to the fish ?

  William H. MacLeish

• Cathedral

  Raymond Carver

• Kneeling Down to Look Into a Culvert

  Robert Bly

• The Kingdom of Auschwitz

  Otto Friedrich

• The Prophet’s Hair

  A short story

  Salman Rushdie

• The Voter

  Edward Sorel

• The Fight to Save Big Sur

  Anthony Brandt

• Dame Alys

  “Wayte what thyng we may nat lightly have, Thereafter wol we crie al day and crave.” The Wife of Bath’s Prologue, Canterbury Tales, Chaucer

  Kathleen Atkins

• Vermeer

  Mark Irwin

• Trees That Pass Us in Our Cars

  Wesley Mcnair

• Tarantelle

  Janet Macfadyen

• Nights in Küstenja

  Jim Merrow

• Prodigy

  Lynne Mcmahon

• List of Funny Names Released

  Ian Frazier

• The True Biography of Maria Callas

  Lloyd Schwartz

• Royally Nicked

  James Wolcott

• Moving Pictures

  Holly Brubach

• Washington: The Return of the Abm

  As enthusiasm for the ABM is revived, so are the arguments against it—and they are compelling

  Fred Kaplan

• The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Byron's Letters and Journals Vol. 11

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Moving Pictures

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Mr. American

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Tigris Expedition

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Luck of Huemac

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Book of Aphrodisiacs

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Atlantic Puzzler

  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

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