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September 1977 Issue
September 1977 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.
  • Moscow: A Chill in the Air
    David K. Shipler
  • Turkey: The Reluctant Westerners
    Cokie Roberts
  • Party of One: The Untrapped Tourist
    Thomas Griffith
  • Toward Nuclear Stability: A Modest Proposal for Avoiding Armageddon
    Earl C. Ravenal
  • Washington
    Sanford J. Ungar
  • La Bocca Della Verità
    Peter Davison

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Fiction

Undertow

By Stuart Dybek
September 1977 Issue
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