June 1995
In This Issue
Explore the June 1995 print edition below. Or to discover more writing from the pages of The Atlantic, browse the full archive.
Articles
Delayed Childbearing
Though career counselors and wishful thinkers may say otherwise, women who put off trying to have children until their mid-thirties or later worsen their chances of becoming pregnant—and risk losing out on motherhood altogether. Maybe society should enable them to delay their careers instead of their childbearing
Prompter
Farmhouse Cheese: The Revival of a British Tradition
One for the Angry White Male
A Joycean novel anticipated for decades
A Dead Man in Deptford
The Case of the Frozen Addicts
Up Front
Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski
Hidden Treasures Revealed
A River Town
The Puzzler
Word Court
The June Almanac
Troubled Waters
Throughout the world fisheries have been ravaged to near-extinction. A look at one of the most badly depleted sites: to save it, thousands of fishermen will have to lose their jobs
Unsung Horn
A Good Dose of the Outback Buzz
...When It Sizzles
More Than a Grain of Salt
A Darkening Day in the Country
Readers Pick Alternative Winners
Settled Scores: Prokofiev at the Movies
Golden Roy Boje
Moments Not to Remember
The Wild, Wild West
When is it a good idea to jump off a galloping horse?
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
How Sweet I Wasn't
The author was fresh out of college. The job — writing jokes for Jackie Gleason’s Miami-based show—sounded terrific. There was just one catch: “The Great One,”as Gleason called himself, wasn’t so great to his writers
Love Poem
The Domestic Core of Foreign Policy
Our task now is not so heroic as fighting a war, but it may be as important: to recognize our limitations, to reject the vanity of trying to remake the world in our image, and to restore the promise of our neglected society
Saturday at the Border
Flood Show
You aren’t supposed to thank women after you make love to them , his wife said. Because they’re not doing you a favor. They’re doing it because they want to
