July 1989 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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- 745 Boylston Street/Contributors, pp. 4-5
- Letters to the Editor, pp. 6-11
- The July Almanac, pp. 12-13
- Notes: Breakout
  Cullen Murphy
  , pp. 14-15
- The Balkans: Europe's Third World
  Robert D. Kaplan
  , pp. 16-22
- Environment: A Toxic Ghost Town , pp. 23-29
- The May Mama Tells It
  Roy Blount, Jr.
  , pp. 30-34
- The Destruction of Dolphins
  Kenneth Brower
  , pp. 35-58
- Generations of Swan
  Peter Davison
  , p. 59
- Squirrels Mating
  John Updike
  , p. 60
- Young Love, America
  Joyce Carol Oates
  , p. 60
- Used
  Rita Dove
  , p. 61
- Mushrooms
  W.S. Merwin
  , p. 61
- Stand
  David Michael Kaplan
  , pp. 62-69
- How to Fight the Drug War
  Gustavo A. Gorriti
  , pp. 70-76
- First Encounters
  Edward Sorel and Nancy Caldwell Sorel
  , p. 77
  Jean Paul Marat and Charlotte Corday
- Travel: The Artistry of Auvers
  Les Daly
  , pp. 78-82
- Music: He Knew His Wagner
  William H. Youngren
  , pp. 83-87
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  A Steely Humanist (Review)
  Paul Goldberger
  , pp. 88-90
  Lewis Mumford: A Life, by Donald L. Miller
  1. Lewis Mumford: A Life by Donald L. Miller
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  Out of Sympathy (Review)
  Nicholas Lemann
  , pp. 91-93
  Welfare Policy for the 1990s, by Phoebe H. Cottingham and David T. Ellwood
  1. Welfare Policy for the 1990s by Phoebe H. Cottingham and David T. Ellwood
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  Brief Reviews (8 Reviews)
  Phoebe-Lou Adams
  , pp. 94-96
  Orders from France, by Roger G. Kennedy
  1. Orders from France by Roger G. Kennedy
  2. Men and Women by Claudia Brush Kidwell and Valerie Steele
  3. Ours by Sergei Dovlatov
  4. A Ring of Conspirators by Miranda Seymour
  5. Unnatural Death by Michael M. Baden and Judith Adler Hennessee
  6. The Centurion by Jan de Hartog
  7. The Good Times by Russell Baker
  8. Lace by Anne Kraatz
- Acrostic No. 48
  Dorothy Osborne
  , pp. 97-98
- The Puzzler
  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
  , p. 99
- Word Histories
  Craig M. Carver
  , pp. 100-102
- Cover illustration
  Braldt Bralds