ANALYSIS
Is There Any Hope for Argentina?
Lowell Gustafson
Specter of Nationalism Haunts Eastern Europe
Robert R. King
Britain's Self-Inflicted Woes
Alan Reynolds

COMMENTARY
Stop the Sellout of Afghanistan
Elie D. Krakowski
Can Glasnost Bring Peace in the Middle East?
Amos Perlmutter
South African's Silent Pain
Nora Beloff

FORUM
The Soviet Republics: A Time for Independence?

 

FOOD
July Fourth Food: Hooray for the Hot Dog!
Kay Shaw Nelson

GARDENS
Wisteria
David H. Ehrlich

HOBBY
Brother, Look Before You Spare That Dime
John Elvin

HUMOR
The Cannon That Roared
Deborah A. Clemans

PROFILE
Rozzi's Famous Fireworks
Carmen Carter
The News of Mexico City: Fortieth Anniversary Birthday Bash
James C. Roberts

FEATURED BOOK: Claire Sterling's Octopus
Introduction
Editor

Interview With Claire Sterling

The Sicilians Are Still Coming
Michael Hedges

Serious Problems Ahead
Joseph D. Douglass, Jr.

REVIEWS
The Imitation Knight
Catherine Maclay
THE KNIGHT, DEATH, AND THE DEVIL
Ella Leffland

Drunk in the USSR
Stanislav Levchenko
THE DRUNKEN SOCIETY
Boris M. Segal

Give Me Shelter
Fred Friedman
DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA
Peter Rossi
THE EXCLUDED AMERICANS
William Tucker

Guardian of the Word
Charles R. Larson
THE RADIANCE OF THE KING
Camara Laye

Inescapably Human
Marion Montgomery
WHAT ARE PEOPLE FOR?
Wendell Berry

American Evil
Richard Lourie
WHAT LISA KNEW
Joyce Johnson

A Common Passion
Tomoko Watanabe and J.W.P. Traphagan
YOU GOTTA HAVE WA
Robert Whiting
MEN AT WORK: THE CRAFT OF BASEBALL
George F. Will

Aristotle Lives
James Deese
ARISTOTLE'S PSYCHOLOGY
Daniel N. Robinson

Victorian Poses
Gregory Wolfe
A VICTORIAN PORTRAIT
Asa Briggs and Archie Miles

ART
Van Gogh Superstar
Jason Edward Kaufman
Spirit of Prajnaparamita
Jane Addams Allen

DANCE
The Australian Ballet: Back to America
Otis Stuart

FILM
Hollywood History: The Real Alamo
Frank Thompson

MUSIC
Blood, Thunder, and Elektra
Lawrence O'Toole
Music Giants of the North, Part One
Robert R. Reilly

PERSPECTIVES
Perpetuating the Status Quo
Eric Gibson

PHOTOGRAPHY
The Bauhaus: The World at a Slant
Jeannine Fieldler and Louis Kaplan

THEATER
Philosopher as Capon
Herb Greer

CRUCIBLES OF SCIENCE
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Joan Kostick Andrews

NATURE WALK
Two Robins Oceans Apart
Charles R. Smith

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
James D. Watson: The Man Who Makes Cold Spring Harbor Tick
Joan Kostick Andrews

FOLK WISDOM
Two Rajasthani Folktales
Christi Ann Merrill

HERITAGE
Polish-Americans in Wilno: 'Out on the Wind'
Thaddeus Radzilowski

PEOPLES
Bar Kokhba: A Two-Millennia Debate
Nechemia Meyers
Mount Athos: No Women Allowed!
Nino Lo Bello
Toasting Georgia's Memory and Future
Paul J. Magnarella