February 1985

Articles

• The Life of the Party

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Schubert

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Illustrator in America 1880-1980

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Jerusalem Inn

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Louise Bogan: A Portrait

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• White Noise

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Renoir

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• August Strindberg

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• World of Words

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Atlantic Puzzler

  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

• Notes: Type B, a-Wise

  Life in the slow lane has its challenges

  Cullen Murphy

• Albania: The Spark That May Cause a Fire

  Why the Soviets might want to invade Albania: a scenario

  Roberto Ducci

• France: Trouble on the Right

  Recent gains by the extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen have left conservatives and moderates confused about whether to imitate or attack him

  Daniel Cohen

• Salute to John Wayne

  Roy Blount Jr.

• Translating the Bible

  Scholars are still laboring to produce a contemporary English version of God’s Holy Word

  Barry Hoberman

• Re-Interment: Recollection of a Grandfather

  Robert Penn Warren

• Rescue

  Guy Billout

• Eclipse!

  Rand Richards Cooper

• Privacy

  David Williams

• The Poverty of Economics

  A report on a discipline riven with epistemological doubt on the one hand and rigid formalism on the other

  Robert Kuttner

• The Mosquito

  Rodney Jones

• Old Sounds Made New

  Lloyd Schwartz

• Experts to a Point

  Fred Hapgood

• A Great American Novel

  James Atlas

• A Nation in Crisis

  Susan Kaufman Purcell

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