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November 1971 Issue
November 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.
  • Burma
    Paul Theroux
  • Profiles in Courrèges
    Calvin Trillin
  • An Ode to Objectivity: Does God Play at Dice?
    Gunther Stent
  • Ground
    Peter Davison
  • Life Is Suffering But..
    Melvin Maddocks
  • A Woman for the People
    Marya Mannes
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A Queer Business

By Frank Kermode
November 1971 Issue
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