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Atlantic Monthly Vol 283 #3 1999 March Victory at Sea
Atlantic Monthly Vol 283 #3 1999 March Name cut out of the front, cover pulled from staples, tear along binding edge of cover
18 Notes & Comment: The Market as God The Supreme Being of religious worship has sometimes been defined as omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Hmmm. The business pages embrace an uncannily similar theology. by Haney Cox
24 Urban Life:
Pick Your Part
The author writes, "We got in a long line of guys with hopeful expressions on their faces and socket wrenches in their hands, paid our one dollar apiece at the gate, and went in."
by tan Frazier
28 Foreign Affairs:
How to Steal a Diamond Little happens in Namaqualand, except "leakage." by Matthew Hart
51 Victory at Sea
Recent movies and books have celebrated the land battles of the Second World War. But for the United States the war began as a contest of sea power. The naval struggles in the Atlantic and the Pacific were vastly different but ultimately proved to be militarily decisive. And yet for many Americans the naval campaigns are the least familiar part of the conflict. A distinguished historian looks afresh at how the Second World War was waged upon the oceans.
by David NI. Kennedy
91 Can of Worms
There is a time-honored method, involving a wooden stake and a metal bar, whereby the skilled baiters of the Florida Panhandle can call worms out of the ground by the hundreds and even the thousandssome of the best earthworms in the world, fishermen claim. One day the government decided to levy a new tax on this harvest.
by Kenneth Brower
ARTS
& LEISURE
42 Travel:
On Top of the World Our correspondent ventures along the 800-mile length of the Karakoram Highway, the treacherous high-altitude track linking China and Pakistan.
by Jeffrey Tesler
102 Food:
Doing Good by
Eating Well
The founders of the Slow Food movement believe, happily, that the best way to preserve endangered regional foods is to consume them.
by Corby Kummer
OTHER
DEPARTMENTS
6 77 North Washington Street/Contributors
10 Letters
16 The March Almanac
119 The Puzzler
by Emily (ox and
Henry Rathron
120 Word Court by Barbara WaWarr
Cover illustration by
Gary Kelley
HUMOR, FICTION, & POETRY
77 The Gilgul of Park Avenue
A short story
by Nathan Englander
88 Dooryard Flower
A poem
by Ellen Bryant Volga
01 Knot
A drawing
by Guy Billout
BOOKS
108 Taming the Savage Noble
At Home With the Marquis de Sade, by Francine du Plessix Gray
by Francis X. Roccu
114 What Makes Poetry "Poetic"?
The Sounds of Poetry, by Robert Pinsky
by David Barber
116 Brief Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams
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