October 2005 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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- Calendar, p. 15
- Letters to the Editor, pp. 16-30
- Comment: Does Oil Have a Future?
  Clive Crook
  , p. 31
- Markets: Hundred-Dollar Oil
  James Hamilton
  , pp. 32-33
- Photo Op: A River Runs Through It, photograph
  Richard Butler
  , pp. 34-35
- Brief Lives: Mahmoud the Bashful
  Mark Bowden
  , p. 36
- Hypotheticals: The Cascade of Proliferation
  Graham Allison
  , pp. 36-39
- The Odds: Who Will Be the Next Fed Chairman?
  John Sellers
  , pp. 40-41
- Cross Examination: The Executioner's Swan Song?
  Benjamin Wittes
  , pp. 42-45
- Primary Sources, pp. 46-47
- The World in Numbers
  Richard Florida
  , pp. 48-51
  The World is Spiky
- Lincoln's Great Depression
  Joshua Wolf Shenk
  , pp. 52-57
- Asiatic Lilies
  Joyce Peseroff
  , pp. 58-69
- Roy and His Rock
  Joshua Green
  , pp. 70-82
- Step
  Guy Billout
  , p. 83
  A drawing
- Imperial Grunts
  Robert D. Kaplan
  , pp. 84-93
- In the Footsteps of Tocqueville, Part IV
  Bernard-Henri Levy
  , pp. 94-103
- Prayer
  Ellen Bryant Voigt
  , pp. 104-110
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  Editor's Choice (3 Reviews)
  Benjamin Schwarz
  , pp. 111-114
  The Stripping of the Altars, by Eamon Duffy
  1. The Stripping of the Altars by Eamon Duffy
  2. The Mind of the Master Class by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese, ...
  3. Crazy Horse by Mari Sandoz
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  The Secret of the Old Saw (Review)
  Sandra Tsing Loh
  , pp. 115-118
  Girl Sleuth, by Melanie Rehak
  1. Girl Sleuth by Melanie Rehak
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  Reading List (5 Reviews)
  Terry Castle
  , pp. 119-120
  Gender Bending, Part 2
  1. Charlotte Mew: Collected Poems and Selected Prose by Val Warner and Charlotte Mew
  2. The Pure and the Impure by Colette
  3. An Autobiography by Janet Frame
  4. The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen
  5. Catharine, and Other Writings by Jane Austen, Margaret Anne Doody, and Douglas Murray, ...
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  --- by Christopher Hitchens (Review) , p. 121
  1. Seize the Fire by Adam Nicolson
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  Review On Beauty, by Zadie Smith (Review)
  Joseph O'Neill
  , pp. 122-123
  1. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
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  A Close Read (Review)
  Christina Schwarz
  , pp. 124-126
  Willful Creatures, by Aimee Bender
  1. Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
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  Latex Conquers All (Review)
  Cristina Nehring
  , pp. 127-128
  Our Bodies, Ourselves, by The Boston Women's Health Book Collective, ...
  1. Our Bodies, Ourselves by The Boston Women's Health Book Collective, ...
- Best Sellers Abroad
  David Hazony
  , pp. 129-130
  Israel
- Travels: The Old Man and the Daiquiri
  Wayne Curtis
  , pp. 131-134
- Food: Sweet Home Louisiana
  Corby Kummer
  , pp. 135-138
- The Puzzler
  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
  , p. 139
- Word Fugitives
  Barbara Wallraff
  , pp. 140-141
- Post Mortem: Great Scott
  Mark Steyn
  , pp. 142-143
  James Montgomery Doohan (1920-2005)
- Who's Who
  Benjamin Healy
  , pp. 144-146
- Cover: Lincoln at the age of forty-nine
  Calvin Jackson