March 1972 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

- The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
- The Democrats
  Richard T. Stout
  , pp. 6-13
- Moscow
  Hedrick Smith
  , pp. 14-17
- El Paso
  James Conaway
  , pp. 18-23
- Innocent Bystander
  L.E. Sissman
  , pp. 24-27
- The Mail, pp. 28-29
- Contributors, pp. 30-32
- The Party's Over
  David S. Broder
  , pp. 33-39
- The Letting Down of the Hair
  Anne Sexton
  , pp. 40-42
  A Story
- Sand Dollar
  John Updike
  , p. 43
- Petronius Americanus: The Ways of Gore Vidal
  Gerald Clarke
  , pp. 44-51
- Believing in Bluegrass
  Robert Cantwell
  , pp. 52-60
- Old Voices
  Leslie Norris
  , p. 61
- An Eye for an Eye
  Milovan Djilas
  , pp. 62-69
  A Story
- The Ghosts of Nuremberg
  Philipp Fehl
  , pp. 70-80
- Four Poems
  Nicanor Parra
  , pp. 81-82
- Friday Night in the Coliseum
  William C. Martin
  , pp. 83-87
- I Met Khrushchev and Didn't Argue About Refrigerators
  Calvin Trillin
  , pp. 88-89
- A Friend Told Me
  James Tate
  , pp. 90-91
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  A Kind of Village Society (Review)
  Joseph Kraft
  , pp. 92-94
  The Japanese and the Jews, by Isaiah Ben-Dasan
  1. The Japanese and the Jews by Isaiah Ben-Dasan
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  After This Life We Will Listen (Review)
  Donald Junkins
  , pp. 95-98
  The Donner Party, by George Keithley
  1. The Donner Party by George Keithley
- The Bomb Blanket
  William Zinsser
  , p. 99
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  Pop Nihilism at the Movies (Review)
  David Denby
  , pp. 100-103
  A Clockwork Orange (1971 Film), by Stanley Kubrick
  1. A Clockwork Orange (1971 Film) by Stanley Kubrick
- What You Fancy
  Anne Angus
  , p. 104
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  The Peripatetic Reviewer (3 Reviews)
  Edward Weeks
  , pp. 105-107
  Those Damned Rebels, by Michael Pearson
  1. Those Damned Rebels by Michael Pearson
  2. The Conspiracy by John Hersey
  3. The Nixon Recession Caper by Ralph Maloney
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  Short Reviews: Books (11 Reviews)
  Phoebe Adams
  , pp. 108-114
  The Friends of Eddie Coyle, by George V. Higgins
  1. The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins
  2. The American Way of Violence by Alphonso Pinkney
  3. The Way It Is Now by Sallie Bingham
  4. The Late Great Creature by Brock Brower
  5. We Must Run While They Walk by William Edgett Smith
  6. One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess
  7. Stubbs by Basil Taylor
  8. The Ewings by John O'Hara
  9. Selected Poems, 1923-1967 by Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni, ...
  10. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Louis Kronenberger
  11. Two Hundred Years of North American Indian Art by Norman Feder