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September 1979 Issue
September 1979 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.
  • Canada: Can the Wounds Heal?
    Stanley Meisler
  • There'll Be Some Changes Made
    Thomas Griffith
  • Order in the Classroom!
    Neil Postman
  • Nimram
    John Gardner
  • Love Poem for a Poet
    Mary Jo Salter
  • Referendum Fever
    André Mayer and Michael Wheeler
Fiction

Nimram

Ich bin von Gott und will wieder zu Gott. (For William H. Gass)

By John Gardner
September 1979 Issue
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