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February 1971 Issue
February 1971 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Precautions Are Being Taken By Those Who Know
    Paul Jacobs
  • Black Suicide
    John Updike
  • Ireland Revisited
    Fanny Howe
  • Things I Bet You Didn't Know
    A. B. C. Whipple
  • Stalinism on Film
    David Denby
  • The Peripatetic Reviewer
    Edward Weeks
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Of a Fire on the Moon

By Phoebe Lou Adams
February 1971 Issue
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