TITLE: ATLANTIC Monthly Magazine
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ISSUE DATE: MAY 1995; VOLUME 275 NO.5
CONDITION: Magazine size: Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

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LEAD ARTICLES:
The Diversity Myth: America's Leading Export: Faced with outbreaks of ethnic and sectarian strife around the world, Americans -- including foreign-policy officials -- often wonder why the diverse and fiercely contending partisans can't be as reasonable as. . well, as Americans have always been. The brutal truth, the author contends, is that stability is rarely achieved through reasonableness -- as our own bloody history shows.n by Benjamin Schwarz.

Too Representative Government: The new Republican Congress has promised important institutional reforms, but nothing so far proposed addresses what's really wrong with the legislative branch. by Steven Stark.

REPORTS:
Notes & Comment: The Lay of the Language: In which certain modern linguistic tendencies put the author in mind of the Strasbourg Oaths. by Cullen Murphy.

Religion: The Jerusalem Syndrome: Every year a number of visitors to Jerusalem fall victim to an intense psychological condition: the delusion that they are divine. by Rebecca Lee.

Americana: Cowboyography: The cowboy singer and songwriter Ian Tyson is giving new life to a vintage form of musical expression. A report from the most recent Cowboy Poetry Gathering, in Elko, Nevada. by Jane and Michael Stern.

ARTS & LEISURE: Travel: Riviera, Relaxed Corsica is like the south of France in the 1950s -- with a dash of Switzerland. by Corby Kummer. Computers: Not Yet Net: Many people believe that they are missing something important if the Internet isn't part of their lives. The author begs to differ. by James Fallows. BOOKS:
The God-Haunted Adulterer: The Life of Graham Greene Volume Two: 1939 -- 1955, by Norman Sherry.
Graham Greene: The Enemy Within, by Michael Shelden by Charles Trueheart.
Hardheaded Reveries The Graham Greene Film Reader, edited by David Parkinson, by Michael Sragow.

Documents as Narrative: Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery, by Norman Mailer, by John W. Aldridge.
Brief Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams.

FICTION & POETRY: If You Sing Like That for Me A short story by Akhil Sharma. A Visit A poem by Margaret Atwood.

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
745 Boylston Street/Contributors; Letters; The May Almanac.
At Last Count: The Geography of Military Recruitment, by Eugene Peck.
First Encounters: Colette and Truman Capote by Edward Sorel and Nancy CaldweII Sorel.
The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon.
Word Watch by Anne H. Soukhanov.
Cover art by Douglas Fraser.
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