June 1982

Articles

• Indonesia: An Effort to Hold Together

  The islands' "guided democracy" is divided by geography, ethnic differences, and religion

  James Fallows

• Waiting for the End

  The growing interest in apocalyptic prophesy

  William Martin

• The Myth of Oppressive Corporate Taxes

  Congress has found an expensive solution to what wasn’t wrong with the economy.

  Gregg Easterbrook

• Sabbatical

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• P. G. Wodehouse

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Killing Our Own

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• A Secret Symmetry: Sabina Spielrein Between Jung and Freud

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Megalithomania

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Book Known as Q

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Dark Wind

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Martin's Hundred

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Atlantic Puzzler

  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

• Washington: Environmental Deregulation

  The combination of the Reagan revolution and the chemical revolution may be a toxic one for American citizens

  David Osborne

• Life Without Pain

  Leslie Epstein

• The One Girl at the Boys' Party

  Sharon Olds

• Leaving Home

  Sue Miller

• At City Hall

  Mary Jo Salter

• Inevitable Revolutions

  U.S. policies in Central America have encouraged what they were supposed to prevent

  Walter Lafeber

• What Could Happen

  P.S. Because of the tremendous need to change the fundamental direction of our nation, I have asked Guy to inform me of your response to my letter.

  Lynn Caraganis

• Manufacturing "Annie"

  Stephen Schiff

• Hard Times for Poets

  Wilfrid Sheed

• Close to the Nerve

  Frank Kermode

• The 1982 American Book Awards

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