The Atlantic Monthly [v288 #1, July-August 2001] ed. Michael Kelly (The Atlantic, $3.95, 176pp, quarto) []
“Special Summer double-issue”.
Details supplied by Darren Heil.
- fc. · Mark Twain Returns · [uncredited] · cv; announcing “never-before-published novelette” by Twain.
- 8 · 77 North Washington Street · Michael Kelly · ed
- 10 · In This Issue · [uncredited] · ms; info on contributors & content.
- 16 · Letters to the Editor · The Readers · lc
- 22 · Innocent Bystander · Cullen Murphy · cl; “Customized Quarantine: Child-free zones and other innovations in exclusionary living”.
- 25 · Arts & Entertainment; special advertising section—music, film, dance.
- _ · Popular Music & Jazz:
- _ · Collective Effort · Bob Blumenthal & Charles M. Young · rv; album, Sidewalk Meeting, by Ted Nash.
- _ · Newport Blues · Charles M. Young · rv; album, Newport Folk Festival, Best of the Blues 1959-1968.
- _ · Activism’s Soundtrack · Charles M. Young · rv; album, Underground Network, by Anti-Flag.
- _ · Film · Ella Taylor · rv; films: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
- _ · Classical Music & Dance · Austin Baer & Nancy Dalva · rv; musicals.
- 32 · Notes & Dispatches; series of articles.
- _ · A French Fourth · Charles Trueheart · ar; raising expatriated children.
- _ · Fouled Out · Eyal Press · ar; about Bobby Knight.
- _ · The Counterterrorist Myth · Reuel Marc Gerecht · ar
- _ · Love, Singaporean Style · Joshua Kurlantzick · ar
- _ · The Colonel and the Bomb · Bill Donahue · ar; about former Air Force colonel Derek Duke.
- 49 · Mark Twain’s “Skeleton Novelette” · Roy Blount, Jr. · is
- 54 · A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage · Mark Twain · nv; illustrated by Peter de Seve; first publication!
- 67 · Mark Twain’s Reconstruction · Roy Blount, Jr. · ar
- 80 · Biker · Ted Kooser · pm
- 84 · Graham Greene’s Vatican Dossier · Peter Godman · ar
- 88 · Lily and Bronze · Mark Doty · pm
- 89 · [Special Advertising Section presented by Shell Oil Co.]
- _ · Count on Shell · Steven L. Miller · lt
- _ · America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places 2001 (by the National Trust for Historic Preservation) · [uncredited] · fa
- 96 · The Mad Poets Society · Alex Beam · ar; about the McLean Hospital in Massachusetts—mental institution to Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton.
- 104 · A Reader’s Manifesto · B. R. Myers · cr; “An attack on the growing pretentiousness of American literary prose”.
- 120 · World · Talvikki Ansel · pm
- 123 · Show-and-Tell · George Singleton · ss; illustrated by Allen Garns
- 128 · Literary Lives · Edward Sorel · cs
- 130 · Pursuits & Retreats; series of columns.
- _ · Travel—Real Places · Emily Hiestand · cl
- _ · Gardens—Liquis Refreshment · Stephen Budiansky · cl
- _ · Sport—Field of Tin · William Zinsser · cl
- _ · Food—Sausages, Souse, and Shandybookers · Corby Kummer · cl
- 148 · Books & Critics; series of articles & book reviews.
- _ · Two—Make That Three—Cheers for the Chain Bookstores · Brooke Allen · ar
- _ · A Harrowing Mirror of Loneliness · Stephen Amidon · rv; about author Richard Yates.
- _ · The Tabloid Habit · Caitlin Flanagan · ar; about tabloids in general & a book on the subject by Bill Sloan.
- _ · New & Noteworthy · David Uhlin, Stewart O’Nan, Brooke Allen, Elizabeth Judd, Alan Buster, Juliet Barker, Barbara Wallraff, Christina Schwarz & Christopher Hitchens · br
- _ · Wharton’s Sharpe Eye · Margaret Drabble · cr [Ref. Edith Wharton]
- 171 · Music—In Glass’s House · David Schiff · rv; about musician Philip Glass.
- 175 · The Puzzler · Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon · pz; crossword.
- 176 · Word Fugitives · Barbara Wallraff · cl
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