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November 1982 Issue
November 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.
  • Trouble in the Stratosphere
    Tracy Kidder
  • Sudden Journey
    Tess Gallagher
  • Gustav Mahler and Sigmund Freud
    Nancy Caldwell Sorel
  • Him With His Foot in His Mouth
    Saul Bellow
  • The Abduction
    Stanley Kunitz
  • Brief Lief
    William Carlos Williams
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Margins of Error

By John Kenneth Galbraith
November 1982 Issue
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