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May 1996 Issue
May 1996 Cover
Peter G. Peterson, “Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old?”; Dmitri Tymoczko, “The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher”; Thomas Byrne Edsall, “The Protean President”; Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “In Tune With Ireland”; and much more. View Magazine
  • I Don't Talk Service No More
    Charles Portis
  • Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old?
    Peter G. Peterson
  • The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher
    Dmitri Tymoczko
  • Backlogs of History
    Cullen Murphy
  • Blowback
    Mary Anne Weaver
  • Someplace Like Home
    Paul Bochner

Latest: Trump’s newest indictment may be far more serious than his first.

More Marriages: A Poetry Anthology

May 1996 Issue
Saved Stories

poetry picture


Cycle
by James Reiss

Passed On
by Erin Belieu

The Wedding Couple
by Donald Hall

The Marriage in the Trees
by Stanley Plumly

Postscript
by Debra Pennington




Go to the Audible Anthology Index.

Illustration by Julie Delton


The Atlantic Monthly; May 1996; More Marriages; Volume 277, No. 5; pages 102-103.