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May 1995 Issue
May 1995 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.
  • The Puzzler
    Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
  • Not Yet Net
    James Fallows
  • The God-Haunted Adulterer: Graham Greene Threw Himself Into Sin as if It Were Salvation
    Charles Trueheart
  • Hardhearted Reveries
    Michael Sragow
  • Documents as Narrative
    John W. Aldridge
  • Evelyn Waugh
    Phoebe-Lou Adams
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The God-Haunted Adulterer: Graham Greene Threw Himself Into Sin as if It Were Salvation

By Charles Trueheart
May 1995 Issue
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