The Atlantic Monthly 1995 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
A Chicago of a novel: in 'The Adventures of Augie March,' Saul Bellow retired the cup. | News, opinion and commentary | Martin Amis |
A French mirror.(civic solidarity in France) | News, opinion and commentary | Hans Koning |
American harvest: the present period in American contemporary music may have no name, but the music itself is flourishing. | News, opinion and commentary | Allen Shawn |
A model prison.(McKean federal correctional institution) | News, opinion and commentary | Robert Worth |
An element of doubt: disinterested research casts doubt on claims that lead poisoning from paint is widespread among American children. | News, opinion and commentary | Ellen Ruppel Shell |
An explosion of green.(reforestation of eastern U.S.)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Bill McKibben |
A nice place to visit. (Santa Barbara, California) | News, opinion and commentary | Robert Plunket |
Atomic overreaction: a close look at plutonium's unearned reputation as the pre-eminent poison. | News, opinion and commentary | Jeff Wheelwright |
Between the sea and the jungle: a remote hotel in Costa Rica puts the rain forest first.(Lapa Rios resort) | News, opinion and commentary | Peter Davison |
Beyond efficiency. (methods of reducing traffic congestion) | News, opinion and commentary | Mark Derr |
Bow ties: some rules of thumb for the neck. | News, opinion and commentary | John D. Spooner |
Bridge between cultures: Chinese bridge players are ready to take on the world. | News, opinion and commentary | Jim Kaplan |
Built pieces: like Igor Stravinsky, Duke Ellington was a brilliant assembler of other people's music. | News, opinion and commentary | David Schiff |
Cosmic chants. (the music of Carl Orff) | News, opinion and commentary | Matthew Gurewitsch |
Cowboyography: how the songwriter and singer Ian Tyson has remade cowboy music. | News, opinion and commentary | Michael Stern, Jane Stern |
Delayed childbearing.(how a woman's fertility declines with age)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Gina Maranto |
Doin' the chameleon: after a lifetime of virtuosic imitation of dozens of pianists, Dick Hyman is coming into his own. | News, opinion and commentary | William Knowlton Zinsser |
Downsizing cities: to make cities work better, make them smaller. | News, opinion and commentary | Witold Rybczynski |
Empowering species: the best way to save endangered species may be to help them pay their own way. | News, opinion and commentary | Charles C. Mann, Mark L. Plummer |
Female circumcision comes to America. | News, opinion and commentary | Linda Burstyn |
Ferocious differences.(differences between Mexico and the U.S.) | News, opinion and commentary | Jorge G. Castaneda |
Flying down to Europe: Chile is surprisingly European - except that it's warm in February. | News, opinion and commentary | Barbara Wallraff |
From York to Jorvik: the Viking past lives on in England.(Jorvik Viking Centre in York, England) | News, opinion and commentary | Phoebe-Lou Adams |
Gale-force kayaking. (storm-sea surf skier Steve Sinclair) | News, opinion and commentary | Andrew Todhunter |
How sweet it wasn't.(writing jokes for Jackie Gleason's TV show) | News, opinion and commentary | Jack Winter |
How the lawyers stole winter: pond skating in the changed context of childhood.(effect of public caution about liability on children's activities) | News, opinion and commentary | Christopher B. Daly |
How to save Social Security: a presidential speech we'd like to hear. | News, opinion and commentary | |
If the GDP is up why is America down?(need to replace the gross domestic product as a measure of economic progress)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Jonathan Rowe, Clifford Cobb, Ted Halstead |
In the strawberry fields.(migrant workers and the California strawberry industry) | News, opinion and commentary | Eric Schlosser |
Let's do the hobble: the generation that won't go away.(influence of the Baby Boom Generation) | News, opinion and commentary | William S. Rukeyser |
Links with history: courses designed by Donald Ross put golfers in touch with a more philosophical era. | News, opinion and commentary | Robert Cullen |
Moments not to remember: at least not on videotape. | News, opinion and commentary | David Owen |
Moral credibility and crime. | News, opinion and commentary | Paul S. Robinson |
My reputation: a liberal reflects on the perils of holding modulated views. | News, opinion and commentary | Wendy Kaminer |
On abortion: a Lincolnian position. (Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | George McKenna |
Our interests in Europe.(Foreign Policy)(Column) | News, opinion and commentary | Alan Tonelson, Robert Gaster |
Overselling depression to old folks. | News, opinion and commentary | Stanley Jacobson |
Paris is finished. (public architecture in Paris, France) | News, opinion and commentary | David Lawday |
Pure roots: the Smithsonian has reawakened Folkways Records, a peerless repository of our native music. | News, opinion and commentary | Tom Piazza |
Raiding nation.(need to cut military spending) | News, opinion and commentary | |
Realized ambitions.(film director Walter Hill) | News, opinion and commentary | Michael Sragow |
Really reinventing government. (Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Peter F. Drucker |
Reinventing the wheels. (Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles automobile redesign project) | News, opinion and commentary | Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins |
Righter than Newt.(presidential candidate Phil Gramm) | News, opinion and commentary | David Frum |
Scaling the heights: a skier's pilgrimage to Switzerland - and how to afford one. | News, opinion and commentary | Geoffrey Wheatcroft |
Schwab's Memphis.(A. Schwab variety store in Memphis, Tennessee) | News, opinion and commentary | Michael Stern, Jane Stern |
Seeds of doubt: a successful donor-insemination service catering to heterosexual single women and lesbians raises some difficult questions.(Sperm Bank of California) | News, opinion and commentary | Susan V. Seligson |
Speaking in tongues.(Wycliffe Bible Translators) | News, opinion and commentary | Lowell Weiss |
Suffering children and the Christian Science Church. | News, opinion and commentary | Caroline Fraser |
Surviving deer season: a lesson in ambiguity. | News, opinion and commentary | Castle Freeman Jr. |
The barefoot bank with cheek: the Grameen Bank, in Bangladesh, which makes small loans to some of the poorest people on earth, has become a model for economic developers all over the world. | News, opinion and commentary | David Bornstein |
The cat in the hat: a tale of a headpiece. | News, opinion and commentary | Leonard L. Riskin |
The crisis of public order.(includes related excerpt from speech by Rep. John Lewis)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Adam Walinsky |
The diphtheria zone. (incidence of diphtheria in Russia) | News, opinion and commentary | Murray Feshbach |
The diversity myth: America's leading export.(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Benjamin Schwarz |
The domestic core of foreign policy. | News, opinion and commentary | Ronald Steel |
The echoes of Northumbria: from Hadrian's Wall to Durham Cathedral.(hiking vacation in Northumbria, England) | News, opinion and commentary | Peter Davison |
The elite primary.(presidential primary politics) | News, opinion and commentary | David Frum |
The feel of wood.(growing popularity of wood tennis rackets) | News, opinion and commentary | Marshall Fisher |
The great sorting.(history of the Educational Testing Service) | News, opinion and commentary | Nicholas Lemann |
The indestructible Mr. Bone.(carnival performer Howard Bone) | News, opinion and commentary | Teller |
The Jerusalem syndrome: each year a number of travelers to Jerusalem become convinced that they themselves are the Messiah or the Virgin or King David or God or Satan. | News, opinion and commentary | Rebecca Lee |
The new intellectuals.(African American intellectuals)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Robert S. Boynton |
The nutria problem. (nutria infestation of Louisiana) | News, opinion and commentary | Calvin Trillin |
The perilous Iditarod.(Iditarod Sled Dog Race and animal mistreatment) | News, opinion and commentary | Mark Derr |
The structure of success in America. (educational testing, college admissions, and the social elite)(part 1)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Nicholas Lemann |
The struggle to govern Johannesburg: the transition to nonracial rule is proceeding more slowly - and more viciously - than expected.(Johannesburg, South Africa) | News, opinion and commentary | Lynda Schuster |
The taming of the saw. (chain saw narrative) | News, opinion and commentary | Andrew Todhunter |
The trouble with dams. (environmental problems, high cost of operation) | News, opinion and commentary | Robert S. Devine |
The undiscovered world of Thomas Edison. | News, opinion and commentary | Kathleen McAuliffe |
The warring visions of the religious right.(Regent University)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Harvey Gallagher Cox |
The world's toughest competition.(Best Ranger Competition) | News, opinion and commentary | Michael Finkel |
Too representative government.(why Congress is ineffective) | News, opinion and commentary | Steven Stark |
Traveling collections.(collection-sharing by art museums) | News, opinion and commentary | Carol Kino |
Troubled waters.(depletion of New England fishing grounds) | News, opinion and commentary | Deborah Cramer |
"Ulysses" in Chinese: the story of an elderly pair of translators and their unusual best seller. | News, opinion and commentary | Cait Murphy |
Unconstructed modernist: how does one account for the fall of Pierre Boulez the composer and the rise of Pierre Boulez the conductor? | News, opinion and commentary | David Schiff |
Was it right?(morality of the 1945 bombing of Japan) | News, opinion and commentary | Thomas Powers |
What Main Street can learn from the mall.(redesigning downtown shopping areas) | News, opinion and commentary | Steven Lagerfeld |
What should children learn?(need for educational standards)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Paul Gagnon |
Who was Shostakovich? (Soviet composer Dmitry Shostakovich) | News, opinion and commentary | Richard Taruskin |
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