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July 1972 Issue
July 1972 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.
  • Italy
    Claire Sterling
  • Innocent Bystander: "Never Such Innocence": July, 1914
    L. E. Sissman
  • Contributors
  • A Light That Failed
    Robert Manning
  • "Top Secret"
  • Top Secret: The Prophecy the President Rejected: How Valid Are the Assumptions Underlying Our Viet-Nam Policies?
    George W. Ball

The British Novel Lives

By Frank Kermode
July 1972 Issue
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