May 1966 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

- Alabama, pp. 4-11
- Ghana , pp. 12-21
- Washington , pp. 22-30
- Geneva , pp. 31-40
- Flaming Arrows to the Sky
  George W. Ball
  , pp. 41-44
  A Memoir of Adlai Stevenson
- The Destroyer
  Peter Davison
  , p. 45
- Our Backward Medical Schools
  Stephen M. Creel, M.D.
  , pp. 46-49
- The Finding of Reasons
  W.S. Merwin
  , p. 50
- The Best Man
  Ralph Maloney
  , pp. 51-56
  A Story
- The Great Coment of 1965
  Owen Gingerich
  , pp. 57-62
- A Weaver of Carpets
  Sam Toperoff
  , p. 63
- The Sanatorium, Le Grau-du-Roi
  David Cheshire
  , p. 64
- All-Night Diner
  Jack Flavin
  , p. 64
- The Statue of Eve
  Michael Wolfe
  , p. 64
- In the Sea; In the Stream
  Helen S. Chasin
  , p. 65
- The Perfect University
  Morris Bishop
  , pp. 66-68
- When I Draw the Lord He'll Be a Real Big Man
  Robert Coles, M.D.
  , pp. 69-75
- The Boom in Art Books
  Louis Kronenberger
  , pp. 76-78
- The Peaceable Kingdom
  Frances Lindley
  , p. 79
- What Makes the Wheels Go Round
  Arnold Gingrich
  , pp. 80-86
- The Story of Jorkel Hayforks
  George Mackay Brown
  , pp. 87-91
  A Story
- The Gift
  John L'Heureux
  , p. 92
- Death of the Sweet Waters
  Donald E. Carr
  , pp. 93-108
  The Politics of Pollution
- The New Color-Styles for Men
  Charles W. Morton
  , p. 109
- The Cornflake Syndrome
  Susan Fuller
  , p. 110
- Mother, Being Partial
  John Alexander Allen
  , pp. 110-111
- Three Cheers for When
  R.G.G. Price
  , p. 112
- Snapshots of the Four Grandchildren
  Hollis Summers
  , p. 113
- New Hampshire Out of Season
  Norman Thomas di Giovanni
  , pp. 114-115
- Requiem for Potheen
  Terence Prittie
  , p. 116
- Who's What?
  Stuart Hemsley
  , p. 117
- The Shall Have Music
  Herbert Kupferberg
  , pp. 118-121
  Music of Our Time
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  The Peripatetic Reviewer (3 Reviews)
  Edward Weeks
  , pp. 122-124
  1. Papa Hemingway by A.E. Hotchner
  2. A Last Lamp Burning by Gwyn Griffin
  3. My Turn by John O'Hara
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  Reader's Choice Earthly Paradise, by Robert Phelps and Colette (7 Reviews)
  Oscar Handlin
  , pp. 125-131
  1. Earthly Paradise by Robert Phelps and Colette
  2. The Women Incendiaries by Edith Thomas
  3. The Railway Police, and The Last Trolley Ride by Hortense Calisher
  4. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
  5. Home by LeRoi Jones
  6. The Germans and Their Modern History by Fritz Ernst
  7. The Case of Richard Sorge by Frederick W. Deakin and Richard Storry
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  Potpourri Rebecca's Daughters, by Dylan Thomas (4 Reviews)
  Phoebe Adams
  , pp. 132-134
  1. Rebecca's Daughters by Dylan Thomas
  2. Chantemesle by Robin Fedden
  3. The Diary of a Rapist by Evan S. Connell, Jr.
  4. Black Light by Galway Kinnell