December 1997 Issue 264

Departments

Contributors

Correspondence

Sunbeams

The Sun Interview

Down The Garden Path: How Ten Thousand Years Of Agriculture Has Failed Us
An Interview With Daniel Quinn

W. Bradford Swift

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Fur
Rafe Martin

The Rules Of Corporate Behavior
Jerry Mander

Turning
Sybil Smith

Fiction

Manna
Doris Dörrie
Translated from the German by Gustav A. Richar

Poetry

God Puts On The Body Of A Deer
Rebecca Baggett

Conquest
David Witherspoon

The Band Plays On
Robert P. Cooke

My Sister's First Boyfriend
David Denny

Eating Lobster
Duncan Zenobia Saffir

Now You Know
Antler

Photography

Photographs By Gordon Baer

Readers Write

The First Time