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November 1981 Issue
November 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.
  • Cordoba: Argentina's Second City
    Hans Koning
  • Why Children Don't Like to Read
    Bruno Bettelheim and Karen Zelan
  • The Wasp
    Joyce Carol Oates
  • Reminiscence to a Daughter
    Jayne Anne Phillips
  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson
    Robert A. Caro
  • The D. H. Lawrence All-Star Jamboree
    James Wolcott
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By Joyce Carol Oates
November 1981 Issue
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