The Atlantic Monthly 1997 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
Abortion in American history. | News, opinion and commentary | Katha Pollitt |
A civic duty to annoy: we tend to forget that criticism sometimes expresses greater respect than praise. | News, opinion and commentary | Wendy Kaminer |
A Democrat who admits it.(Rep. Richard Gephardt) | News, opinion and commentary | James Fallows |
A grief like no other.(parents of murdered children)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Eric Schlosser |
All sales are vinyl; shopping for LPs in the many villages of downtown New York City. | News, opinion and commentary | Jonathan Scull |
A man from Mars. (John Gunther, author of 'Inside U.S.A.') | News, opinion and commentary | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
A memory of the nineteen-nineties.(Max Beerbohm's book 'Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties.') | News, opinion and commentary | Teller |
An anatomy lesson: looking at Rembrandt between sessions of the Yugoslav war-criminal tribunal in The Hague. | News, opinion and commentary | Lawrence Weschler |
An Audubon in sound: Messiaen's radiant birdsongs, the crown of his creation, belong as much to the artist as to nature.(Olivier Messiaen) | News, opinion and commentary | Matthew Gurewitsch |
Arts and entertainment. (Chicago, Illinois)(Special Advertising Supplement) | News, opinion and commentary | Nancy Dalva, John Istel, Bob Blumenthal, Charles M. Young, Ella Taylor |
A subversive sympathy: the stories of Peter Taylor and the illusions they bring to life. | News, opinion and commentary | Robert Wilson |
A train to Spain: across northern Spain by rail, from Galicia to the Basque Country. | News, opinion and commentary | Lucy McCauley |
A war that never ends.(controversy over laws of grammar) | News, opinion and commentary | Mark Halpern |
Blood and motherly advice.(American Forces TV Network)(Americana) | News, opinion and commentary | Gregg Easterbrook |
British islets.(visits to Isles of Scilly and the Channel Islands) | News, opinion and commentary | Hatsy Shields |
But not least: a tribute to those who are forgotten but not gone. (last surviving members of historical groups) | News, opinion and commentary | Richard Rubin |
Can the government prevent divorce? | News, opinion and commentary | Francine Russo |
Citizen 501(c)(3): an increasingly powerful agent in American life is also one of the least noticed.(private foundations) | News, opinion and commentary | Nicholas Lemann |
Cuba's entrepreneurial socialism. | News, opinion and commentary | Joy Gordon |
De Sade's daughters.(new erotic literature by women)(Books)(Column) | News, opinion and commentary | Lee Siegel |
Diamond nuggets: all the weekly baseball notes you'll ever really need.(baseball comments and facts) | News, opinion and commentary | Roy Blount Jr. |
Dostoyevsky behind a camera: Oliver Stone is making great American novels on film. | News, opinion and commentary | Garry Wills |
Do we consume too much? | News, opinion and commentary | Mark Sagoff |
Forgotten benefactor of humanity. (agronomist Norman Borlaug) | News, opinion and commentary | Gregg Easterbrook |
Good news! From Boston to San Francisco the community-based housing movement is transforming bad neighborhoods. | News, opinion and commentary | Alexander Von Hoffman |
Here come the frosh.(origin of 'frosh' and 'freshmen')(Word Improvisation)(Column) | News, opinion and commentary | J.E. Lighter |
Hidden colors: the rubble on one of the few remaining gray blocks near the old Checkpoint Charlie reveals much about what Berlin is losing, and losing fast. (Germany) | News, opinion and commentary | David Lawday |
How to rewrite economic history: the Boskin Commission's attack on the Consumer Price Index is weak on the merits and scary as policy. (Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index Chairperson Michael Boskin)(Column) | News, opinion and commentary | Thomas I. Palley |
In the monster's maw: fishing holds a different thrill when you yourself are the bait.(barehanded catfish catching) | News, opinion and commentary | Burkhard Bilger |
Keeping the modern modern: by trying to keep up with the times, the Museum of Modern Art may obliterate its architectural diary of modernism.(New York, NY) | News, opinion and commentary | Witold Rybczynski |
Late edition: the mighty Miehle, a letterpress the size of a truck, which for thirty years printed the news for Yellow Springs, Ohio, falls victim to the computer. | News, opinion and commentary | John Fleischman |
Maria, not Callas: Terrence McNally's 'Master Class' deliberately plays fast and loose with historical fact in search of artistic truth. | News, opinion and commentary | Matthew Gurewitsch |
More reefer madness. (government policy on marijuana) | News, opinion and commentary | Eric Schlosser |
My race problem - and ours.(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Randall Kennedy |
New-alphabet disease: it's tough suddenly changing from one alphabet to another. Azerbaijan is on its third one this century. | News, opinion and commentary | Toby Lester |
Noisy highways: noise barriers give essential protection to people who live near crowded roads - and a growing number of designers are showing that they needn't be eyesores. | News, opinion and commentary | Philip Langdon |
No middle way on the environment. | News, opinion and commentary | Gretchen C. Daily, Norman Myers, James Salzman, Paul R. Ehrich, Scott C. Daily |
Notes on the twentieth century: it was the bloodiest ever, but still some surprising good has come out of it. | News, opinion and commentary | Hans Koning |
Off the Maine coast: the island as foreign country; the vacationer as admiring expat. (expatriate; Vinalhaven in Penobscot Bay) | News, opinion and commentary | Peter Davison |
Our real China problem.(environmental crisis in China) | News, opinion and commentary | Mark Hertsgaard |
Peeping in peace: not only New England has fall foliage worth traveling to see - Canada's uncrowded Maritime Provinces do too. | News, opinion and commentary | Barbara Wallraff |
Pleasure islands; the Canaries offer different visions of the sublime. | News, opinion and commentary | Rose Moss |
Rails to trails: across America disused railbeds are being converted to trails for hiking and biking; soon a national trail will link the coasts. | News, opinion and commentary | Tony Hiss |
Resurgence of a deadly disease.(malaria)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Ellen Ruppel Shell |
Rough-terrain unicycling. | News, opinion and commentary | Michael Finkel |
Running scared. (political behavior of politicians)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Anthony King |
Scaling Alaska's heights: within Juneau's city limits are handsome mountains that novices can climb.(Travel) | News, opinion and commentary | Charles Thompson |
Secondhand music: the chance harmonies of everyday sounds may mean more than we think. | News, opinion and commentary | Toby Lester |
Should English be the law?(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Robert D. King |
Slam and jam.(US air traffic control system) | News, opinion and commentary | William Langewiesche |
Slow death in the Great Plains.(low birth rate in Great Plains states) | News, opinion and commentary | Harlow A. Hyde |
So long to bad dogs; animal behaviorism is an infant science, but it has dramatically changed the way many dog owners understand their animals. | News, opinion and commentary | Mark Derr |
Taking notice of POTUS. (President of the United States)(US slang) | News, opinion and commentary | J.E. Lighter |
The AIDS exception: privacy vs. public health.(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Chandler Burr |
The capitalist threat.(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | George Soros |
The computer and the economy; will information technology ever produce the productivity gains that were predicted? | News, opinion and commentary | Richard E. Quandt, Alan S. Blinder |
The computer delusion.(computers in education)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Todd Oppenheimer |
The disunited states: "devolution" - shifting power from Washington to the fifty states - is no cure for what ails American government.(Column) | News, opinion and commentary | John D. Donahue |
The mall of fame: even in neglect, a shrine to our society's values embodies them still.(original Hall of Fame in New York; changing meaning of fame) | News, opinion and commentary | Richard Rubin |
The man from heaven.(composer Burt Bacharach) | News, opinion and commentary | Francis Davis |
The man who counts the killings. (George Gerbner, violence on television) | News, opinion and commentary | Scott Stossel |
The most eminent Victorian. (former English Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone) | News, opinion and commentary | Geoffrey Wheatcroft |
The music of silence: a portrait of an unlikely monk - a former concert pianist, once legendary in Paris for his talent, looks, and charm.... | News, opinion and commentary | Phyllis Rose |
The near-myth of our failing schools. | News, opinion and commentary | Peter Schrag |
The poses of Howard Hawks.(filmmaker) | News, opinion and commentary | Garry Wills |
The reading wars.(political dispute over reading education methods) | News, opinion and commentary | Nicholas Lemann |
The widening gap between the military and society. | News, opinion and commentary | Thomas E. Ricks |
The Wittgenstein controversy.(publication of the papers of Ludwig Wittgenstein) | News, opinion and commentary | Evelyn Toynton |
The worst thing Bill Clinton had done.(welfare reform)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Peter Edelman |
Time to end the Korean War. | News, opinion and commentary | Bruce Cumings |
To whale or not to whale.(whaling) | News, opinion and commentary | Mark Derr |
Underground Rome: a good way to study ancient Rome is to explore the cellars - and subcellars - of modern Rome. (Italy) | News, opinion and commentary | Tom Mueller |
Underwater daredevils: divers compete to see who can go deepest on just one breath - and who can survive the yet-more-perilous ascent to air. | News, opinion and commentary | Colin Beavan |
Vaccinating against cancer. | News, opinion and commentary | Stephen S. Hall |
Vigilance: what's a dad to do in a world of sharp corners? | News, opinion and commentary | Meg Cimino |
Visitations: the graveyards of a lifetime.(man's fascination with cemeteries) | News, opinion and commentary | Gerald Dumas |
Warm-blooded plants and freeze-dried fish: the future of space exploration.(Atlantic Monthly Looks Ahead to the 21st Century, part 1)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Freeman J. Dyson |
Watch word. (definitions of newly coined terms) | News, opinion and commentary | Anne H. Soukhanov |
What Jefferson helps to explain.(Thomas Jefferson) | News, opinion and commentary | Benjamin Schwarz |
What nurses stand for. | News, opinion and commentary | Suzanne Gordon |
White snow, red rocks: is Sedona, Arizona, cosmically energizing or simply refreshing? | News, opinion and commentary | Peter Davison |
Whose right to die? America should think again before pressing ahead with the legalization of physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. | News, opinion and commentary | Ezekial Emanuel |
Word watch. (newly coined terms, terms with new meanings or currency) | News, opinion and commentary | Anne H. Soukhanov |
Zero.(debate over when the millennium actually starts) | News, opinion and commentary | Dick Teresi |
Zoot! A new software program on the Internet shows the usefulness and flexibility of shareware. (shareware) | News, opinion and commentary | James Fallows |
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