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Publication: December 1988

General Note: Articles
The Unfinished War by Nicholas Lemann

No Hard Feelings? by James Fallows - In the company of a disgised German priest, and English novelist, an American ex-Marine, and an assortment of mendacious local guides, our man in Southeast Asia sets out aboard a rickety Russian-made bus on a group tour of Vietnam

Reports & Comment
Notes: The Way We Were by Cullen Murphy
Washington: Hide and Seek by Brad Edmondson
Williamsburg: Revising Colonial America by Fergus M. Bordewich

Humor and Fiction
Modern Child Development by John M. Tierney
Hold Me Fast, Don't Let Me Pass by Alice Munro
A La Fancaise by Guy Billout

Poetry
The Bridge of Sighs by Steve Orlen
Powers of Congress by Alice Fulton

Books
Fun With Kurt and Bert by Paul Hoffman review of Labyrinth of Reason by William Poundstone
Mr. Africa by Conor Cruise O'Brien reviewing The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Enigma of Power by Robert Rotberg
Brief Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams

Other Departments
Contributors
Letters to the Editor
The December Almanac
Home: Not Log Cabins by Philip Langdon
Food: Cook Pork Pink by Corby Kummer
Acrostic No. 41 by Dorothy Osborne
The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Word Histories by Craig M. Carver

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Citation: The Atlantic, 999Serial47080. No Date, Vietnam Center Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=999Serial47080, Accessed 27 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 999Serial47080, Vietnam Center Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive