February 1981 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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- Czechoslovakia: The Party Is in Control
  John Stone
  , pp. 6-9
- Labor: What's a Job Worth
  Vivienne Killingsworth
  , pp. 10-23
- The Mail, pp. 24-28
- Back to the Gold Standard?
  James K. Glassman
  , pp. 29-35
- Teaching a Stone to Talk
  Annie Dillard
  , pp. 36-38
- Art
  Michael Harris
  , p. 39
- Rite of Passage
  Anthony Brandt
  , pp. 40-42
- Metaphors of Women
  Katha Pollitt
  , p. 43
- Of Sex and the Catholic Church
  Francis X. Murphy, C.S.S.R.
  , pp. 44-57
- A Trip to the Seaside
  V.S. Pritchett
  , pp. 58-63
- Untitled Poem
  Alan Dugan
  , p. 64
- The Inspired Heart
  Miriam Schapiro
  , p. 65
- Kiss Me, I'm Italian
  Todd McKie
  , p. 66
- Thank You from Hannah
  Hannah Wilke
  , p. 67
- February
  Ellen Lanyln
  , p. 68
- Sunporch
  Alfred Leslie
  , p. 69
- Hurdle Mills, NC
  Barbara Thomsen
  , p. 70
- Quarry
  Fran Lindsay
  , p. 70
- Amnios
  Peggy Rizza
  , p. 71
- February
  Ken Leeder
  , p. 71
- A Needle Bed
  Brad Leithauser
  , p. 71
- Unwanted Immigrants: Cuban Prisoners in America
  James Conaway
  , pp. 72-81
- Tomcat
  Jim Shepard
  , pp. 82-85
- The War Essaymatic 5000
  Andrew Ward
  , pp. 86-87
- Life in the Fast Lane
  Donald McCaig
  , pp. 88-90
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  Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf (Review)
  Jeff Wylie
  , pp. 91-92
  The Harvard Classics, by Charles W. Eliot
  1. The Harvard Classics by Charles W. Eliot
- [+]
  Short Reviews (8 Reviews) , pp. 93-94
  The Life of John O'Hara, by Frank MacShane
  1. The Life of John O'Hara by Frank MacShane
  2. Other People's Worlds by William Trevor
  3. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
  4. Ellis Island, and Other Stories by Mark Helprin
  5. The Cheer by William Meredith
  6. Ambition: The Secret Passion by Joseph Epstein
  7. The Strange Destiny of Rupert Brooke by John Lehmann
  8. Cleaning House by Nancy Hayfield
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  PLA (10 Reviews)
  Phoebe-Lou Adams
  , pp. 95-99
  The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi
  1. The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi
  2. Ways of Escape by Graham Greene
  3. American Genesis by Jeffrey Goodman
  4. Washburn College Bible by Bradbury Thompson
  5. Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
  6. The Tale of the Shining Princess by Donald Keene and Sally Fisher
  7. Death Under Par by Janice Law
  8. The Find of a Lifetime by Sylvia L. Horwitz
  9. A World Like Our Own by Alison Jolly
  10. I Saw Tokyo Burning by Robert Guillain
- The Atlantic Puzzler, pp. 100-102
- Cover
  Moreau le Jeune