May 1982 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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- Letters to the Editor, pp. 4-9
- Washington: Endless Deficits
  James Fallows
  , pp. 10-24
- Solar Energy: No Profit in Politics
  Byron Harris
  , pp. 25-34
- Kissinger and Nixon in the White House
  Seymour M. Hersh
  , pp. 35-71
  The wiretaps and the Plumbers, in Nixon's first term
- The Power of Positive Buying
  Robert M. Strozier
  , pp. 72-75
  The plenty-more-where-that-came-from theory of the economy
- Where the Water is Wide
  Dianne Benedict
  , pp. 76-79
  A short story
- Charming
  William Matthews
  , pp. 80-82
- First Encounters
  Edward Corel and Nancy Caldwell Sorel
  , p. 83
  Charlie Chaplin and Jean Cocteau
- The Only Problem in the Universe
  Rory O'Connor
  , pp. 84-92
  An economist uncovered it thirty years ago, and now something called the Assembly of th...
- Chickens
  Roy Blount, Jr.
  , pp. 93-94
  In appreciation of an underrated bird
- Music/Classical Records
  William H. Youngren
  , pp. 95-99
  The proper sound of classical and Romantic music
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  Books/The Confident Speculators (Review)
  John Kenneth Galbraith
  , pp. 100-101
  Beyond Greed, by Stephen Fay
  1. Beyond Greed by Stephen Fay
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  Books/Poets in Training (Review)
  Katha Pollitt
  , pp. 102-105
  The Journals of Sylvia Plath, by Ted Hughes, Frances Monson McCullough, and Sylvia Plat...
  1. The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Ted Hughes, Frances Monson McCullough, and Sylvia Plath, ...
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  Short Reviews (9 Reviews)
  Phoebe-Lou Adams
  , pp. 106-109
  The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot, by Junichiro Tanizaki
  1. The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot by Junichiro Tanizaki
  2. Steaming to Bamboola by Christopher Buckley
  3. Group Portrait by Nicholas Delbanco
  4. The Patriot Game by George V. Higgins
  5. Ninteeen Hundred by Rebecca West
  6. The Young Rebecca by Rebecca West and Jane Marcus
  7. Old Mistresses by Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock
  8. Ireland by Robert Kee
  9. Morning Was Starlight by Ernest S. Dodge
- The Atlantic Puzzler
  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
  , pp. 110-112
- Cover illustration
  Brad Holland