November 1981

Articles

• Cordoba: Argentina's Second City

  The smoke drifting overhead is only stone dust, but this may be one of the battlefields where Latin America’s future will be decided

  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

  They came to worship, but had trouble finding the shrine

  James Wolcott

• The Wellfleet Whale

  Stanley Kunitz

• I Fly With the Eagles

  “Roger, 90 left, SPAD 2.”“God, nor!”

  James Fallows

• The Games

  David Solway

• The Author's Acknowledgments

  Lynn Caraganis

• Saigon: "Liberated" but Still Capitalist

  The Communist government derides “consumerism,”but it knows that a thriving black market is vital to the city’s economy

  Stanley Karnow

• Classical Records

  William H. Youngren

• A Sure Narrative Voice

  James Atlas

• Navigating Through Reefs

  Robert Towers

• The Return to Camelot

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Fashionable Mind

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Voyage of the Armada

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Obsession

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Trouble With France

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Witches

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The People's Doonesbury

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Among the Believers/Green Thoughts/the Ultimate Resource

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Atlantic Puzzler

  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

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