TITLE: ATLANTIC Monthly Magazine
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ISSUE DATE: MARCH 1987; VOLUME 259 NO. 3
CONDITION: Magazine size: Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

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COVER illustration by Andre Francois.

ARTICLES:
THE IMPORTANCE OF PLAY . . . BRUNO BETTELHEIM . . . The most normal and competent child encounters what seem like insurmountable problems in living. Play is a child's best tool for coping with those problems and preparing himself for the future and its tasks.

THE GAME'S STILL AFOOT . . . CAIT MURPHY . . . "The rule of the game is that it must be played as solemnly as a county cricket match at Lord's," Dorothy Sayers once wrote. The game is Sherlockian scholarship, and in recent years it has taken a new turn.

REPORTS & COMMENT:
NOTES: THE IDS OF MARCH . . . TIMOTHY FOOTE.
EAST ASIA: GRADGRIND'S HEIRS . . . JAMES FALLOWS.
WASHINGTON: THE ZAP GAP . . . CHUCK DE CARO.
DEVELOPMENT: THE LESSONS OF BHOPAL . . . FERGUS M. BORDEWICH.

FICTION:
THE YEAR OF GETTING TO KNOW US . . . ETHAN CANIN.
SMOKE . . . JAY MCINERNEY.

POETRY:
THE VERY FIRST DREAM OF MORNING . . . ROBERT SIEGEL.
STRAWBERRYING . . . MAY SWENSON.
IN PRAISE OF THE POTATO . . . DAVID WILLIAMS.

BOOKS:
A COUNTRY OF THE MIND . . . Reagans America by Garry Wills . . . JACK BEATTY.
PRESENT AT THE DISASTER . . . WALTER LAFEBER . . . The Closest of Enemies by Wayne S. Smith.
BRIEF REVIEWS . . . PHOEBE-LOU ADAMS.

OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
CONTRIBUTORS.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE MARCH ALMANAC.
FIRST ENCOUNTERS . . . EDWARD SOREL and NANCY CALDWELL SOREL.
MUSIC: AMERICAN SOUNDINGS . . . WILLIAM H. YOUNGREN.
DANCE: TWYLA THARP'S RETURN . . . HOLLY BRUBACH.
THE YEAR OF GETTING TO KNOW US . . . ETHAN CANIN.
SMOKE . . . JAY MCINERNEY.
ACROSTIC No. 20 . . . DOROTHY OSBORNE.
THE PUZZLER . . . EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVON.
WORD WATCH . . . ANNE H. SOUKHANOV.

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