The Atlantic, Volume 247, Number 4, April 1981

Includes a review by Phoebe-Lou Adams of Burroughs' Cities of the Red Night, p. 126.

Published in Boston, MA. by The Atlantic Monthly Company in April, 1981.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19810400TATL.247.4

Contents: 

• Mavis Gallant: "Paris: The Taste of a New Age" (essay)
• Ian Frazier: "The Museum" (prose)
• Robert B. Zevin: "The New Economic Faith" (essay)
• Margaret Atwood: "Mushrooms" (poetry)
• Lewis Thomas: "Medicine without Science" (wssay)
• Philip Roth: "In the Bin" (prose)
• Robert Penn Warren: "At the Corner of the Eye" (poetry)
• James Fallows: "The Civilianization of the Army" (essay)
• Roy Blount, Jr.: "Loss: A Guide to Economics" (essay)
• Holly Brubach: "Designer Dancing" (on ballet)
• Stephen Schiff: "Defending Mediocrity" (review of Truffaut's The Last Metro)
• Allen Shawn: "Contemporary American Composers" (on modernist music)
• Wilfrid Sheed: "Impossible Assignment" (review of Toni Morrison's Tar Baby)
• short reviews (including of Burroughs' Cities of the Red Night)
• Mary Oliver: "Rain in Ohio" (poetry)
• Edward Sorel: comic
• Michael C. White: comic

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: William Whitworth
• Executive Editor: Richard Todd
• Associate Editor: C. Michael Curtis
• Managing Editor: Louise Desaulniers
• Washington Editor: James Fallows
• Assistant Editors: Deborah McGill, Martha Spaulding
• Staff Editors: Phoebe-Lou Adams, Peter Davison, Anne Mortimer-Maddox, Sue Parilla
• Editorial Assistants: Margaret Ayer, Maureen Brown, Avril Cornel, Nina Engelhardy
• Contributing Editors: Benjamin DeMott, Ward Just, James Alan McPherson, Ross Terrill, Sanford J. Ungar, Dan Wakefield, Andrew Ward, Daniel Yergin
• Editor Emeritus: Edward A. Weeks
• Publisher: Garth Hite