October 1981
In This Issue
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Articles
Living on the Fault Line
"Those who live in the vicinity are accustomed to earthquakes. But the prospect that scientists now suggest is different from anything within living memory in southern California."
Domesticated Madness
The Care of Time
The Beechers
The Case of the Sliding Pool
The Maharajah and Other Stories
The Maharajah and Other Stories
Practicing History
The European and the Indian
Pork
Master Drawings by Picasso
Surviving the Flood
Death Notes
Voices in the Garden
Father-Daughter Incest
Breakthrough
The Atlantic Puzzler
Krakõw: Russophobia in Poland
To the Poles, Muscovites have for centuries been “those barbarians on the peripheries”
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
An Instinct for the Game
Billy Ray Bates obviously could play basketball, but could he play in the NBA ?
Kyoto: A Gorgeous "Na" Melody
In Japan’s strange quasi-English, a “funky babe” buys a “waishatsu” at a “depaato”
The Crossing
Heartbeat
Mountain Music: Chain Saw Couplets
Wired Into Now
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Updike's Rabbit Trilogy
