April 1981 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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- Letters to the Editor, pp. 4-8
- Reports & Comment
  Mavis Gallant
  , pp. 9-19
  Paris: The Taste of a New Age
- The Museum
  Ian Frazier
  , pp. 20-24
  A Story
- The New Economic Faith
  Robert B. Zevin
  , pp. 25-27
  The ascendance of the conservatives
- Comic Art
  Michael C. Witte
  , pp. 28-36
- Mushrooms
  Margaret Atwood
  , pp. 37-39
- Medicine Without Science
  Lewis Thomas
  , pp. 40-42
  A historic urge just to try something
- In the Bin
  Philip Roth
  , pp. 43-86
  A story
- Comic Art
  Edward Sorel
  , pp. 87-96
- At the Corner of the Eye
  Robert Penn Warren
  , p. 97
- The Civilianization of the Army
  James Fallows
  , pp. 98-108
  Questions about the Army's combat readiness
- Loss: A Guide to Economics
  Roy Blount, Jr.
  , p. 109
  The silly view
- Ballet/Designer Dancing
  Holly Brubach
  , pp. 110-112
  The influence of fashion on classical dance
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  Movies/Defending Mediocrity (Review)
  Stephen Schiff
  , pp. 113-114
  The Last Metro (1980 Film), by Francois Truffaut
  1. The Last Metro (1980 Film) by Francois Truffaut
- Music/Contemporary American Composers
  Allen Shawn
  , pp. 115-118
  Are the modernists "cold"?
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  Books/Improbable Assignment (Review)
  Wilfrid Sheed
  , p. 119
  Tar Baby, by Toni Morrison
  1. Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
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  --- by C. Michael Curtis (Review) , p. 120
  1. Explaining America: The Federalist by Garry Wills
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  2 Reviews Creation, by Gore Vidal (2 Reviews)
  Elizabeth Duvall
  , pp. 120-121
  1. Creation by Gore Vidal
  2. Frog Salad by Sally George
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  Review The Officer's Wives, by Thomas Fleming (Review)
  Peter Davison
  , p. 122
  1. The Officer's Wives by Thomas Fleming
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  10 Reviews The Harper Anthology of Poetry, by John Freder... (10 Reviews)
  Phoebe-Lou Adams
  , pp. 122-125
  1. The Harper Anthology of Poetry by John Frederick Nims
  2. The Cat and the King by Louis Auchincloss
  3. Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy-Casares
  4. Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
  5. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards
  6. The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate
  7. Pioneer Women by Joanna L. Stratton
  8. Their Gracious Pleasure, 1782-1785 by Claude Manceron
  9. Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy by Anne Edwards
  10. Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
- Rain in Ohio
  Mary Oliver
  , pp. 126-129
- The Atlantic Puzzler
  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
  , pp. 130-132