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September 1981 Issue
September 1981 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.
  • Oil, Fish, and Georges Bank
    William H. MacLeish
  • Resources: Oil, Fish, and Georges Bank
    William H. MacLeish
  • Cathedral
    Raymond Carver
  • Kneeling Down to Look Into a Culvert
    Robert Bly
  • The Kingdom of Auschwitz
    Otto Friedrich
  • The Prophet’s Hair
    Salman Rushdie

Resources: Oil, Fish, and Georges Bank

The questions on Georges are: Is there oil here? And if so, what will it do to the fish ?

By William H. MacLeish
September 1981 Issue
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