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May 16, 1991 Issue - 17 Articles- Iraq
Edward Mortimer
, pp. 3-7 The Road Not Taken
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The Angels and Devils of Dickens (5 Reviews) Garry Wills
, pp. 8-11 Dickens, by Peter Ackroyd
- Dickens by Peter Ackroyd
- The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin
- Mark Twain's Aquarium by John R. Cooley
- Victorian Subjects by J. Hillis Miller
- Dickens and the 1830s by Kathryn Chittick
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The White World of Frederick Douglas (Review) David Brion Davis
, pp. 12-15 Frederick Douglass, by William S. McFeely
- Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely
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The Reality Game (Review) Robert M. Adams
, pp. 16-17 Patrimony, by Philip Roth
- Patrimony by Philip Roth
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The Old Chinese Black Magic (Review) Frederic Wakeman Jr.#2
, pp. 18-22 Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768, by Philip A. Kuhn
- Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 by Philip A. Kuhn
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A Star is Born (2 Reviews) John Gregory Dunne
, pp. 23-26 You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, by Julia Phillips
- You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again by Julia Phillips
- How Green Was My Valley by Philip Dunne
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'The Final Secret of the Universe'? (3 Reviews) Daniel J. Kevles
, pp. 27-32 Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, by Dennis Overbye
- Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos by Dennis Overbye
- The Big Bang Never Happened by Eric J. Lerner
- Origins by Alan Lightman and Roberta Brawer
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How to Read a Fresco (Review) John Pope-Hennessy
, pp. 33-39 The Place of Narrative, by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
- The Place of Narrative by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
- Living in a Russian Novel
Jamey Gambrell
, pp. 40-43 - The Good Old Days
Robert Darnton
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Graham Greene and 'The Quiet American' (Review) Richard West
, pp. 49-52 The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- India's Awful Prisons
David J. Rothman and Aryeh Neier
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Decadence Revisited (5 Reviews) Jasper Griffin
, pp. 57-61 Alexander to Actium, by Peter Green
- Alexander to Actium by Peter Green
- The Hellenistic Aesthetic by Barbara Hughes Fowler
- Hellenistic Poetry by Barbara Hughes Fowler
- Hellenism in Late Antiquity by G.W. Bowersock
- Greek Sculpture by Andrew Stewart
- 'The Storm Over the University'
John Searle and Gerald Graff
, pp. 62-63 A Further Exchange
- 'Agents of Influence'
James Fallows and Jagdish Bhagwati
, p. 64 An Exchange
- Letters
Chris Goddard, Jane W. Stedman, and Lord Zuckerman, ...
, pp. 64-68 - Cover Photograph
David Hardy