September 1986 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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- Contributors, pp. 4-5
- Letters to the Editor, pp. 6-11
- The September Almanac, pp. 12-13
- Notes: Hmmm?
  Roy Blount, Jr.
  , p. 14
- New Zealand: The Politics of Identity
  David Harlan
  , pp. 14-19
- Jobs: Women in the Work Force
  George Gilder
  , pp. 20-25
- The Law: Trust Versus Antitrust
  Katrin Bridget Snow
  , pp. 26-31
- The Enchanted Glade
  George Starbuck
  , pp. 32-34
- The Japanese Are Different From You and Me
  James Fallows
  , pp. 35-41
- Incident at Mhlaba Jail
  Ernst Havemann
  , pp. 42-44
- First Encounters
  Edward Sorel and Nancy Caldwell Sorel
  , p. 45
- "The Target Is Destroyed"
  Seymour M. Hersh
  , pp. 46-69
- Words From the Wise
  Vivian Ducat
  , pp. 70-76
- Bayswater
  Marilyn Hacker
  , p. 77
- My Father's Shirt
  Sharon Olds
  , p. 77
- Epithalamion
  Katha Pollitt
  , p. 78
- Analogies of the Leaf
  Stanley Plumly
  , p. 79
- Late Loving
  Mona Van Duyn
  , pp. 80-91
- Music: A Third-Stream Opera
  Francis Davis
  , pp. 92-93
- Design: From a Spark to a Flame
  Robert P. Crease
  , pp. 94-95
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  Teacher's Pet (Review)
  Martin Amis
  , pp. 96-99
  Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition, by James Joyce, Hans Walter Gabler, and Wolfh...
  1. Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition by James Joyce, Hans Walter Gabler, and Wolfhard Steppe, ...
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  Sex in Our Time (2 Reviews)
  Phyllis Rose
  , pp. 100-101
  Rediscovering Love, by Willard Gaylin
  1. Rediscovering Love by Willard Gaylin
  2. Re-Making Love by Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, and Gloria Jacobs, ...
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  The Triumph of the Nerds (Review)
  Lloyd Rose
  , pp. 102-103
  It, by Stephen King
  1. It by Stephen King
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  Brief Reviews (8 Reviews)
  Phoebe-Lou Adams
  , p. 104
  Singletusk, by Bjorn Kurten
  1. Singletusk by Bjorn Kurten
  2. The Anti-Soviet Soviet Union by Vladimir Voinovich
  3. Alaska: Southeast to McKinley by Andrew Jaffe, Lisa Tysen, and Sven-Olof Lindblad, ...
  4. Imposters by George V. Higgins
  5. Men's Lives by Peter Matthiessen
  6. Velazquez: Painter and Courtier by Jonathan Brown
  7. Portrait of Delmore by Delmore Schwartz and Elizabeth Pollet
  8. The Hiroshima Murals by John Junkerman, John W. Dower, Iri Maruki, and Toshi Maruki, ...
- Acrostic No. 14
  Dorothy Osborne
  , pp. 105-107
- The Puzzler
  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
  , pp. 108-110
- Cover illustration
  Theo Rudnak