September 1987

Articles

• Labors Lost

  Barbara Ehrenreich

• The Australians

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Silent Executioner

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Victorian Sisters

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Orphans

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Titanic

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Rat

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Bloodsong and Other Stories of South Africa

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Age of Grief

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Acrostic No. 26

  Dorothy Osborne

• The Puzzler

  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

• Correction

• The September Almanac

• Notes: Help for the Tv-Shy

  David Owen

• Ruffles and Flourishes

  Susan Ohanian

• Japan: Playing by Different Rules

  In the U.S. economy the consumer is sovereign; in the Japanese the producer is. It’s a fundamental difference

  James Fallows

• Iceland: A Nonesuch People

  With some success, Icelanders are fighting to remain themselves

  Brad Leithauser

• Flowers of Evil: Ask Charles Baudelaire

  Frank Gannon

• Leaving Home

  Lake Wobegon Stories

  Garrison Keillor

• Aids and Insects

  The question that many people don’t want to touch— and that many others can’t leave alone

  Katie Leishman

• Spring And

  Elizabeth Libbey

• Jean Renoir and Erich Von Stroheim

  Nancy Caldwell Sorel

• The Megaethon: 1850, 1906-1929

  Les A. Murray

• Talking to the Sun

  Gail Regier

• A Stirring Dish: The Pleasures of Risotto Amply Reward the Labor It Requires

  Corby Kummer

• Berg's "Lulu": A Modern Masterpiece That Has Come Into Its Own

  William H. Youngren

• Poet of the Dance

  Sanford Schwartz

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