September 1982

Articles

• Genesis vs. Geology

  The claim that creationism is a science rests above all on the plausibility of the biblical flood

  Stephen Jay Gould

• Creationism: Genesis vs. Geology

  The claim that creationism is a science rests above all on the plausibility of the biblical flood

  Stephen Jay Gould

• The Atlantic Puzzler

  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

• London: Renewed Confidence

  For British policy-makers, the war over the Falklands seems to have ended twenty-five years of self-doubt

  Geoffrey Smith

• Blue Highways

  William Least Heat Moon

• Mosaic

  Linda Pastan

• Tree, Stone, Water

  Leslie Norris

• Feathers

  Raymond Carver

• Misunderstanding Africa

  Guilt and caution have often led the Western press to explain away the continent’s failures

  Xan Smiley

• In the Cemetery

  Donald Justice

• Anecdotes From the Hospital

  Anatole Broyard

• The Sea

  Mary Oliver

• Fillmore Regained

  Roy Blount Jr.

• The Pasionaria of Style

  Hilton Kramer

• Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Their Noble Lordships

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Last Rites

• Last Rites

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Micronesia: The Land, the People and the Sea

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Aké

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• A Present of Laughter

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Flashman and the Redskins

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Annotated Mother Goose

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• A Little More Than Kin

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

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