October 1986 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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- Contributors, pp. 4-5
- Letters to the Editor, pp. 6-19
- The October Almanac, pp. 20-21
- Notes: Of the Effable
  Roy Blount, Jr.
  , p. 22
- The Press: New Money on Fleet Street
  Simon Jenkins
  , pp. 22-27
- Washington: The Business of Politics
  Gregg Easterbrook
  , pp. 28-37
- Paris: Tools of Torture
  Phyllis Rose
  , pp. 38-39
- A Short History of the World
  Jill Crane
  , pp. 40-42
- How Business is Reshaping America
  Christopher B. Leinberger and Charles Lockwood, ...
  , pp. 43-55
- Night Sport
  William Hoffman
  , pp. 56-60
- Double Dactyls
  George Starbuck
  , pp. 61-62
- Light
  Guy Billout
  , p. 63
- Where Toys Come From
  David Owen
  , pp. 64-79
- Archyology
  Don Marquis
  , pp. 80-84
- Music: Schnabel's Beethoven Restored
  William H. Youngren
  , pp. 85-88
- Sports: The Linemakers
  Richard Zacks
  , pp. 89-93
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  The Crisis in Abstract Art (Review)
  Hilton Kramer
  , pp. 94-97
  Working Space, by Frank Stella
  1. Working Space by Frank Stella
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  Accidental Suicide (Review)
  Barbara Ehrenreich
  , pp. 98-99
  Why We Lost the ERA, by Jane J. Mansbridge
  1. Why We Lost the ERA by Jane J. Mansbridge
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  Unvarnished Veritas (Review)
  Cullen Murphy
  , pp. 100-101
  The Harvard Guide to Influential Books, by C. Maury Devine, Claudia M. Dissel, and Kim ...
  1. The Harvard Guide to Influential Books by C. Maury Devine, Claudia M. Dissel, and Kim D. Parrish, ...
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  Brief Reviews (8 Reviews)
  Phoebe-Lou Adams
  , pp. 102-104
  Home: A Short History of an Idea, by Witold Rybczynski
  1. Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski
  2. Roger's Version by John Updike
  3. North by Northeast by Walter Cronkite and Ray G. Ellis
  4. Brantwood by Peter Hoyle
  5. The Mexican Pet by Jan Harold Brunvand
  6. Adam's Task by Vicki Hearne
  7. Icebound by Leonard F. Guttridge
  8. Domenico Tiepolo: The Punchinello Drawings by Adelheid M. Gealt and Domenico Tiepolo
- Acrostic No. 15
  Dorothy Osborne
  , pp. 105-107
- The Puzzler
  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
  , pp. 108-110
- Cover illustration
  Seymour Chwast