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October 1982 Issue
October 1982 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.
  • Hollow
    Breece D'J Pancake
  • Divad
    Gregg Easterbrook
  • London: God Save the Monarch
    Bernard Levin
  • Child's Eye, Adult's Hand
    Lloyd Rose
  • Languid, but Never Dull
    James Atlas
  • Entertaining Satan
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
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Languid, but Never Dull

By James Atlas
October 1982 Issue
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