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Behind the Crimson Curtain

Closed Chambers, by Edward Lazarus

by Kathleen M. Sullivan

The New York Review of Books, October 8, 1998, pp. 15-17

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      June 25, 1998 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. [+]
        Funny Faces by John Updike, pp. 4-8 - 1 Review
        Celebrity Caricature in America by Wendy Wick Reaves
      2. [+]
        Down and Out in East Tokyo by Ian Buruma, pp. 9-12 - 2 Reviews
        San'ya Blues by Edward Fowler#2
        Molding Japanese Minds by Sheldon Garon
      3. On Frank Sinatra by Murray Kempton and Whitney Balliett, p. 13
      4. [+]
        The Mindsnatchers by Frederick Crews, pp. 14-18 - 3 Reviews
        The Threat: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda by David M. Jacobs
        Confirmation by Whitley Strieber
        Aliens in America by Jodi Dean
      5. Neither Here Nor There by Effie Traylor-Parkes, p. 19
      6. Three Poems by Zbigniew Herbert, pp. 20-21
      7. [+]
        How to Think About the Stock Market by Roger E. Alcaly, pp. 22-26 - 9 Reviews
        Against the Gods by Peter L. Bernstein
        It Was a Very Good Year by Martin S. Fridson
        Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd
        A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel
        What Works on Wall Street by James P. O'Shaughnessy
        Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy J. Siegel
        Advances in Behavorial Finance by Richard H. Thaler
        Securities Markets in the 1980s, Vol. I by Barrie A. Wigmore
        The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
      8. [+]
        Those Were the Days by Garry Wills, pp. 27-28 - 2 Reviews
        The Children by David Halberstam
        Walking with the Wind by John Lewis and Michael D'Orso
      9. [+]
        The Charms of Theodor Fontane by Gabriele Annan, pp. 29-32 - 1 Review
        Uber Fontane by Gordon A. Craig
      10. [+]
        I'd Walk a Mile for a Fee by Nicholas Lemann, pp. 33-35 - 1 Review
        Cornered by Peter Pringle
      11. [+]
        The Politics of Jacques Derrida by Mark Lilla, pp. 36-41 - 6 Reviews
        History of Structuralism by Francois Dosse
        The Other Heading by Jacques Derrida
        Specters of Marx by Jacques Derrida
        Force de Loi by Jacques Derrida
        Politics of Friendship by Jacques Derrida
        Cosmopolites de Tous Les Pays, Encore un Effort! by Jacques Derrida
      12. [+]
        Under the Overcoat by John Bayley, pp. 42-44 - 2 Reviews
        The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
        Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin
      13. [+]
        Keeping the Faith by Sam Tanenhaus, pp. 45-48 - 1 Review
        The Soviet World of American Communism by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill Anderson, ...
      14. Roman Candle by William Weaver, pp. 49-51
      15. [+]
        Fun City by Jasper Griffin, pp. 52-54 - 1 Review
        Athens from Alexander to Antony by Christian Habicht
      16. A New, Nuclear India? by Pankaj Mishra, pp. 55-64
      17. 'Who's Afraid of the Avant-Garde?' by Ivan Hewett, Jessica Krash, and Charles Rosen, p. 65
      18. Letters by Daniel Levine and Mark Lilla, pp. 66-68
      19. Cover: Detail of 'Sigmund Freud and Jean Harlow,' 1935 by Miguel Covarrubias
  3. [+]
    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1998 = 3 Issues, 56 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 16, 1998 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Exile by Russell Baker, pp. 4-7 - 3 Reviews
        Nixon in Winter by Monica Crowley
        Abuse of Power by Stanley I. Kutler
        Nixon's Economy by Allen J. Matusow
      2. [+]
        In the Empire of Islam by Ian Buruma, pp. 8-11 - 1 Review
        Beyond Belief by V.S. Naipaul
      3. [+]
        A Lost Generation by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 12-14 - 1 Review
        Cold New World by William Finnegan
      4. [+]
        My Blue Heaven by Diane Johnson, pp. 15-20 - 8 Reviews
        Raising Baby by the Book by Julia Grant
        Dr. Spock: An American Life by Thomas Maier
        Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock and Steven Parker
        Maybe One by Bill McKibben
        Family Man by Calvin Trillin
        Born that Way by William Wright
        The War Against Parents by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West
        Our Babies, Ourselves by Meredith Small
      5. [+]
        Sleepwalkers by Cathleen Schine, p. 21 - 1 Review
        Last Vanities by Fleur Jaeggy
      6. On Alfred Kazin (1915-1998) by Andrew Delbanco, pp. 22-23
      7. [+]
        Slumming by Garry Wills, p. 24 - 1 Review
        Bulworth (1998 Film) by Warren Beatty
      8. 407 Highland Ave., Orange, N.J. by Henry Allen, p. 25
      9. [+]
        Life & Death on the Social Ladder by Helen Epstein, pp. 26-30 - 4 Reviews
        Unhealthy Societies by Richard G. Wilkinson
        Healthy Work by Robert A. Karasek and Tores Theorell
        Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky
        The Power of Clan by Stewart Wolf and John G. Bruhn
      10. [+]
        On the Love Boat by Michael Wood, pp. 31-34 - 4 Reviews
        Identity by Milan Kundera
        The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa
        A Lover's Almanac by Maureen Howard
        The Red Hat by John Bayley
      11. [+]
        Nesting Dolls by Gabriele Annan, pp. 35-36 - 2 Reviews
        Thirty-Three Moments of Happiness by Ingo Schulze
        Simple Stories by Ingo Schulze
      12. Child's Play by Geoffrey O'Brien, pp. 37-40
      13. [+]
        The Way We Write Now by John Bayley, pp. 41-43 - 5 Reviews
        Without by Donald Hall
        Going Fast by Frederick Seidel
        Ten Commandments by J.D. McClatchy
        Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
        On Love by Edward Hirsch
      14. How Milosevic Hangs On by Tim Judah, pp. 44-47
      15. [+]
        Looking for the Sheriff by Brian Urquhart, pp. 48-53 - 4 Reviews
        FDR and the Creation of the U.N by Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley
        United Nations by Stanley Meisler
        The Reluctant Sheriff by Richard N. Haass
        Preventing Deadly Conflict
      16. An Exchange on TWA 800 by Elaine Scarry and James E. Hall, pp. 54-55
      17. Letters by Noel Malcolm, Huston Smith, Freeman Dyson, and David Ball, ..., pp. 56-60
      18. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    2. [+]
      August 13, 1998 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        Whatever Happened to Whitewater? by Lars-Erik Nelson, pp. 4-6 - 2 Reviews
        Arkansas Mischief by Jim McDougal and Curtis Wilkie
        Friends in High Places by Webster Hubbell
      2. The Cambodian Calamity by Henry Kamm, p. 7
      3. [+]
        The Good, the Bad & the Bourgeois by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 8-12 - 3 Reviews
        Thinking with History by Carl E. Schorske
        Pleasure Wars by Peter Gay
        My German Question by Peter Gay
      4. The Rose of Paracelsus by Jorge Luis Borges, p. 13
      5. [+]
        The Case of Lani Guinier by Anthony Lewis, pp. 14-17 - 1 Review
        Lift Every Voice by Lani Guinier
      6. [+]
        The Masked Avenger by Fintan O'Toole, pp. 18-21 - 2 Reviews
        Four Plays by Wallace Shawn
        The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn
      7. [+]
        The Last Days of Nietzsche by John Banville, pp. 22-25 - 1 Review
        Nietzsche in Turin by Lesley Chamberlain
      8. [+]
        Democratic Vistas? by Jonathan Mirsky, pp. 26-33 - 4 Reviews
        China's Transition by Andrew J. Nathan
        Democratization in China and Taiwan by Bruce J. Dickson
        The Political Economy of Corruption in China by Julia Kwong
        Beyond Beijing by Dali L. Yang
      9. [+]
        How Odd of God by Garry Wills, pp. 34-36 - 3 Reviews
        Jews: The Essence and Character of a People by Arthur Hertzberg and Aron Hirt-Manheimer
        Portrait of American Jews by Samuel C. Heilman
        The Vanishing American Jew by Alan M. Dershowitz
      10. [+]
        Partner in the Park by Witold Rybczynski, pp. 37-39 - 1 Review
        Country, Park, and City by Francis R. Kowsky
      11. Swing King by Whitney Balliett, pp. 40-42
      12. Indonesia Reborn? by Margaret Scott, pp. 43-48
      13. [+]
        The Gang's All Here by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 49-51 - 1 Review
        The Half-Life of Happiness by John Casey
      14. [+]
        A Room of One's Own by James Fenton, pp. 52-53 - 1 Review
        The Scholar in His Study by Dora Thornton
      15. [+]
        Counsels on Foreign Relations by Tony Judt, pp. 54-60 - 1 Review
        A Tangled Web by William Bundy
      16. TWA 800 by Jim Hall and Elaine Scarry, pp. 61-64
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    3. [+]
      September 24, 1998 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. [+]
        Depth-Settings by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 4-6 - 1 Review
        Sight-Readings by Elizabeth Hardwick
      2. [+]
        Jerry Don't Surf by Louis Menand, pp. 7-8 - 1 Review
        Saving Private Ryan (1998 Film) by Steven Spielberg
      3. [+]
        The New New Math by Martin Gardner, pp. 9-12 - 2 Reviews
        Multicultural and by Janet Trentacosta and Margaret J. Kenney
        Focus on Algebra by Randall I. Charles and Alba Gonzalez Thompson, ...
      4. [+]
        The Case of the Loony Lexicographer by John Gross, pp. 13-15 - 1 Review
        The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
      5. [+]
        Don't Say Goodbye by Ian Buruma, pp. 16-19 - 1 Review
        East and West by Christopher Patten
      6. [+]
        Memento Mori by A. Alvarez, pp. 20-25 - 3 Reviews
        The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford
        Grave Matters by Nigel Barley
        The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch
      7. [+]
        The Sun Also Sets by A.O. Scott, pp. 26-29 - 1 Review
        Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
      8. [+]
        Pursuing the Pursuit of Happiness by Laurence H. Tribe, pp. 30-35 - 1 Review
        A New Birth of Freedom by Charles L. Black, Jr.
      9. [+]
        Loyal Toward Reality by Michael Scammell, pp. 36-40 - 4 Reviews
        A Book of Luminous Things by Czeslaw Milosz
        Mysticism for Beginners by Adam Zagajewski
        Two Cities by Adam Zagajewski
        Winter Dialogue by Tomas Venclova
      10. [+]
        Fresh Air Blues by Sue Halpern, pp. 41-43 - 3 Reviews
        Wickerby by Charles Siebert
        The Meadowlands by Robert Sullivan
        Red-Tails in Love by Marie Winn
      11. [+]
        Chechnya: How Russia Lost by Robert Cottrell, pp. 44-47 - 4 Reviews
        Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power by Anatol Lieven
        Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus by Carlotta Gall and Thomas de Waal
        Russia Confronts Chechnya by John B. Dunlop
        Russia and Chechnia: The Permanent Crisis by Ben Fowkes
      12. [+]
        Small Expectations by Sarah Kerr, pp. 48-49 - 1 Review
        Man or Mango? A Lament by Lucy Ellmann
      13. [+]
        The L-Word by Alan Ryan, pp. 50-54 - 1 Review
        Liberalism and Its Discontents by Alan Brinkley
      14. Nigeria by Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, pp. 55-57
      15. [+]
        The Way to Grant's Tomb by Joseph Connors, pp. 58-62 - 1 Review
        The Dancing Column by Joseph Rykwert
      16. [+]
        The Killing Fields of Bosnia by Mark Danner, pp. 63-76 - 6 Reviews
        To End A War by Richard Holbrooke
        Croatia by Marcus Tanner
        The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar by Eric Stover and Gilles Peress
        Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime by Jan Willem Honig and Norbert Both
        Blood and Vengeance by Chuck Sudetic
        Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica by David Rohde
      17. A Gory Future? by Lars-Erik Nelson, p. 77
      18. The 'Tangled Web' by Henry A. Kissinger and Tony Judt, pp. 78-81
      19. The Computer Revolution by Bob Davis, David Wessel, and Jeffrey Madrick, pp. 82-83
      20. Letters by Stephanie Coontz, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, and Andrew Hacker, ..., pp. 84-88
      21. Cover photograph by David James
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1998 = 6 Issues, 112 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 8, 1998 Issue = 20 Articles
      1. Impasse in Kosovo by Tim Judah, pp. 4-5
      2. [+]
        The Crack in the China by Anita Desai, pp. 6-7 - 1 Review
        Death in Summer by William Trevor
      3. Wall Street Blues by Leon Levy and Jeff Madrick, pp. 8-11
      4. [+]
        To the Pith of London's Heart by John Bayley, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review
        The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel
      5. Cat and Mustang: A Still Life by Brad Leithauser, p. 14
      6. [+]
        Behind the Crimson Curtain by Kathleen M. Sullivan, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review
        Closed Chambers by Edward Lazarus
      7. While You Were Out by Clifford Paul Fetters, p. 18
      8. [+]
        A Great Leap Backward by Liu Binyan and Perry Link, pp. 19-23 - 1 Review
        Zhongguo di Xuan Jian by Qinglian He
      9. [+]
        The Sphinx of Russia by Aileen Kelly, pp. 24-28 - 1 Review
        Echoes of a Native Land by Serge Schmemann
      10. How Many People Can the Earth Support? by Joel E. Cohen, pp. 29-31
      11. [+]
        The New Demon by Benjamin M. Friedman, pp. 32-36 - 2 Reviews
        The Great Betrayal by Patrick J. Buchanan
        The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw
      12. [+]
        Staring Through the Stitches by Helen Vendler, pp. 37-39 - 2 Reviews
        Poems New and Collected, 1957-1997 by Wislawa Szymborska
        New Collected Poems by Tomas Transtromer
      13. November by Tomas Transtromer, p. 40
      14. [+]
        The Reluctant Republicans by Edmund S. Morgan, pp. 41-42 - 1 Review
        The Brave Bostonians by Philip McFarland
      15. Stravinsky & Balachine by Robert Craft, p. 43
      16. [+]
        Chopping Off the Golden Bough by Jasper Griffin, pp. 44-47 - 2 Reviews
        Magic in the Ancient World by Fritz Graf
        The Great God Pan by John Boardman
      17. [+]
        The Revolution That Didn't Happen by Steven Weinberg, pp. 48-52 - 1 Review
        The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
      18. 'When Worlds Collide' by Budd Hopkins, David M. Jacobs, and David F. Maier, ..., pp. 53-55
      19. Letters by William Bundy, Richard G. Wilkinson, and Meyer Friedman, M.D., ..., pp. 56-60
      20. Cover: detail from "Plum Blossoms by Moonlight" by Ma Yuan
    2. [+]
      October 22, 1998 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. On Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998) by Adam Michnik, pp. 6-7
      2. Two Poems by Zbigniew Herbert, pp. 8-9
      3. [+]
        Orwell in 1998 by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 10-14 - 1 Review
        The Complete Works of George Orwell by Peter Davison and George Orwell
      4. [+]
        The Wise Woman by Julian Barnes, p. 15 - 1 Review
        Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
      5. Clinton Agonistes by Joan Didion, pp. 16-23
      6. [+]
        The Eye of Walker Evans by Luc Sante, pp. 24-26 - 9 Reviews
        Walker Evans by Judith Keller and Walker Evans
        Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye by Gilles Mora and John T. Hill
        Walker Evans: A Biography by Belinda Rathbone
        Signs by Walker Evans
        The Last Years of Walker Evans by Jerry L. Thompson and Walker Evans
        Walker Evans: Havana 1933 by Gilles Mora
        Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans
        Walker Evans at Work by Walker Evans
        American Photographs by Walker Evans
      7. [+]
        Beat the Devil by Louis Menand, pp. 27-30 - 1 Review
        The Time of Our Time by Norman Mailer
      8. On JFK by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and Isaiah Berlin, pp. 31-37
      9. [+]
        The West Without Chili by Larry McMurtry, pp. 38-40 - 1 Review
        The New Encyclopedia of the American West by Howard R. Lamar
      10. Two Poems by W.S. Merwin, p. 41
      11. Fidel in the Evening by Alma Guillermoprieto, pp. 42-49
      12. Prologue for a State Presentation of the Inferno by Robert Pinsky, p. 50
      13. [+]
        Men, Women & Beasts by James Fenton, pp. 51-58 - 5 Reviews
        D. H. Lawrence: The Cambridge Biography, Vol. I by John Worthen
        D. H. Lawrence: The Cambridge Biography, Vol. II by Mark Kinkead-Weekes
        D. H. Lawrence: The Cambridge Biography, Vol. III by David Ellis
        Birds, Beasts, and Flowers! by D.H. Lawrence
        D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Poems by Vivian de Sola Pinto, Warren Roberts, and D.H. Lawrence, ...
      14. [+]
        Survival of the Nicest? by R.C. Lewontin, pp. 59-63 - 1 Review
        Unto Others by Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson
      15. [+]
        Aimez-Vous Brahms? by Charles Rosen, pp. 64-68 - 4 Reviews
        Johannes Brahms: A Biography by Jan Swafford
        Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters by Styra Avins and Johannes Brahms
        Brahms Studies 2 by David Brodbeck
        Brahms: The Four Symphonies by Walter Frisch
      16. [+]
        Deep Hanging Out by Clifford Geertz, pp. 69-72 - 2 Reviews
        Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians by Pierre Clastres
        Routes by James Clifford
      17. [+]
        'Operation Storm' by Mark Danner, pp. 73-79 - 4 Reviews
        Croatia by Marcus Tanner
        To End A War by Richard Holbrooke
        Logavina Street by Barbara Demick and John Costello
        Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber and Allan Little
      18. [+]
        Borges's Dark Mirror by J.M. Coetzee, pp. 80-82 - 1 Review
        Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
      19. [+]
        The Man Who Invented Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 83-90 - 1 Review
        Buffon: A Life in Natural History by Jacques Roger
      20. [+]
        Affirming Affirmative Action by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 91-104 - 1 Review
        The Shape of the River by William G. Bowen and Derek Bok
      21. Cover drawing by Edward Gorey
    3. [+]
      November 5, 1998 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        He's the Top! by Brad Leithauser, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
        Cole Porter: A Biography by William McBrien
      2. [+]
        The Not Very Grand Inquisitor by Lars-Erik Nelson, pp. 8-12 - 2 Reviews
        ...And the Horse He Rode In On by James Carville
        The Clinton Enigma by David Maraniss
      3. Domestic Architecture by James Merrill, p. 13
      4. [+]
        Believe It or Not by Anthony Grafton, pp. 14-18 - 3 Reviews
        A Collector's Cabinet by Arthur K. Wheelock
        Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park
        Special Cases by Rosamond Purcell
      5. [+]
        Do Parents Count? by Howard Gardner, pp. 19-22 - 1 Review
        The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris
      6. [+]
        Escape Artists by Hilary Mantel, pp. 23-26 - 3 Reviews
        The Last Resort by Alison Lurie
        Park City by Ann Beattie
        A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
      7. Guess Who Pays for Workfare? by Robert M. Solow, pp. 27-37
      8. [+]
        Waiting for Lefty by Robert Stone, pp. 38-40 - 1 Review
        I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
      9. Goodbye to Bonn by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 41-43
      10. [+]
        Pricks and Kicks by Gabriele Annan, pp. 44-45 - 2 Reviews
        Mistler's Exit by Louis Begley
        Europa by Tim Parks
      11. Between A and B by James Lasdun, p. 46
      12. [+]
        Iran's Unlikely President by Shaul Bakhash, pp. 47-51 - 1 Review
        Hope and Challenge by Mohammad Khatami
      13. [+]
        Vivacious Ghost by William H. McNeill, pp. 52-55 - 1 Review
        How the Canyon Became Grand by Stephen J. Pyne
      14. Is Affirmative Action Doomed? by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 56-60
      15. [+]
        The Landmines Ban & Its Discontents by John Ryle, p. 61 - 1 Review
        The History of Landmines by Mike Croll
      16. Letters by Hugh Agnew and John Banville, pp. 62-64
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    4. [+]
      November 19, 1998 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. Russian Roulette by Tatyana Tolstaya, pp. 4-7
      2. [+]
        Bye-Bye Bech by David Lodge, pp. 8-10 - 1 Review
        Bech at Bay by John Updike
      3. [+]
        Dean of the Cold War by Noel Annan, pp. 11-16 - 1 Review
        Acheson by James Chace
      4. Discreet Charm of Nihilism by Czeslaw Milosz, p. 17
      5. [+]
        Monet Our Contemporary by Robert L. Herbert, pp. 18-22 - 1 Review
        Monet in the 20th Century by Paul Hayes Tucker and George T.M. Shackelford, ...
      6. [+]
        Hello to Berlin by Ian Buruma, pp. 23-27 - 2 Reviews
        Faust's Metropolis by Alexandra Richie
        Capital Dilemma by Michael Z. Wise
      7. [+]
        Mystic Scientist by Fintan O'Toole, pp. 28-31 - 1 Review
        Threads of Time by Peter Brook
      8. [+]
        The Blue Revolution by Michael Massing, pp. 32-36 - 3 Reviews
        The Turnaround by William Bratton and Peter Knobler
        Getting Away With Murder by Susan Estrich
        Politics, Punishment, and Populism by David J.G.H. Windlesham
      9. [+]
        What Follies and Paradoxes! by John Bayley, pp. 37-39 - 1 Review
        Toward Another Shore by Aileen M. Kelly
      10. [+]
        The End of Explanation? by Bernard Williams, pp. 40-44 - 1 Review
        The Last Word by Thomas Nagel
      11. The Court the US Doesn't Want by Kenneth Roth, pp. 45-47
      12. Leonardo's Nephew by James Fenton, pp. 48-54
      13. [+]
        Doris Lessing's Double Life by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 55-56 - 1 Review
        Walking in the Shade by Doris M. Lessing
      14. [+]
        Under the Volcano by Bernard Knox, pp. 57-60 - 1 Review
        Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
      15. [+]
        Darwin in Dayton by Daniel J. Kevles, pp. 61-63 - 1 Review
        Summer for the Gods by Edward J. Larson
      16. [+]
        The Magic of James Baldwin by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 64-74 - 1 Review
        James Baldwin: Collected Essays by Toni Morrison and James Baldwin
      17. Hungry and Homeless by Louis Lowenstein, p. 75
      18. Letters by Lev Loseff, Simon Leys, Julia Grant, and Diane Johnson, ..., pp. 76-80
      19. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    5. [+]
      December 3, 1998 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        Destiny in Any Case by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
        I Will Bear Witness, Vol. II by Victor Klemperer
      2. [+]
        Democracy for Sale by Lars-Erik Nelson, pp. 8-10 - 1 Review
        The Buying of the Congress by Charles Lewis
      3. [+]
        Jackson Whole by John Updike, pp. 11-13 - 1 Review
        Jackson Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe
      4. [+]
        The Big American Crime by Edmund S. Morgan, pp. 14-18 - 4 Reviews
        Many Thousands Gone by Ira Berlin
        Slave Counterpoint by Philip D. Morgan
        Remembering Slavery by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller
        Africans in America by Charles Richard Johnson and Patricia Smith
      5. A Letter on Germany by George Kennan, pp. 19-20
      6. [+]
        China is Near by Richard Jenkyns, pp. 21-23 - 1 Review
        The Chan's Great Continent by Jonathan D. Spence
      7. [+]
        Scientists Behaving Badly by David L. Hull, pp. 24-31 - 1 Review
        The Baltimore Case by Daniel J. Kevles
      8. [+]
        Grand Illusions by James Fenton, pp. 32-35 - 1 Review
        New Worlds from Old by Elizabeth B. Johns and Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, ...
      9. [+]
        The Solzhenitsyn Archipelago by Michael Scammell, pp. 36-40 - 1 Review
        Alexander Solzhenitsyn by D.M. Thomas
      10. [+]
        Footprints of a Shadow by W.S. Merwin, pp. 41-43 - 7 Reviews
        A Centenary Pessoa by Eugenio Lisboa, L.C. Taylor, and Fernando Pessoa, ...
        Poems of Fernando Pessoa by Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown, and Fernando Pessoa, ...
        Fernando Pessoa: Selected Poems by Richard Zenith and Fernando Pessoa
        Always Astonished by Fernando Pessoa and Edwin Honig
        The Keeper of Sheep by Fernando Pessoa
        An Introduction to Fernando Pessoa by Darlene J. Sadlier
        The Presence of Pessoa by George Monteiro
      11. [+]
        Out of Novemberland by Andre Aciman, pp. 44-47 - 1 Review
        The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
      12. [+]
        The Hack of Genius by P.N. Furbank, pp. 48-50 - 1 Review
        Daniel Defoe by Richard West and Daniel Defoe
      13. [+]
        A la Recherche du Temps Perdu by Tony Judt, pp. 51-58 - 1 Review
        Realms of Memory by Lawrence D. Kritzman
      14. The Watchman's Lament by Ted Hughes, p. 59
      15. 'Higher Superstition' by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, and R.C. Lewontin, p. 59
      16. Letters by Rick Wallach, A.O. Scott, John Szarkowski, and Henry Allen, ..., pp. 60-64
      17. Cover: "One: Number 31, 1950" by Jackson Pollock
    6. [+]
      December 17, 1998 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        Just Say 'Wait a Minute' by Malcolm Gladwell, pp. 4-7 - 2 Reviews
        The Fix by Michael Massing
        Drug Crazy by Mike Gray
      2. [+]
        Silent Screams by Geoffrey O'Brien, pp. 8-11 - 2 Reviews
        Les Vampires (1915 Film) by Louis Feuillade
        Irma Vep (1996 Film) by Olivier Assayas
      3. [+]
        'A Nice Pleasant Youth' by John Gross, pp. 12-17 - 1 Review
        Explaining Hitler by Ron Rosenbaum
      4. [+]
        A Man Half Full by Norman Mailer, pp. 18-22 - 1 Review
        A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
      5. Oranges by James Merrill, p. 23
      6. [+]
        Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter! by John Russell, pp. 24-28 - 2 Reviews
        Elliott Carter by Jonathan W. Bernard and Elliott Carter
        The Music of Elliott Carter by David Schiff and Elliott Carter
      7. [+]
        Wise Man by Alan Ryan, pp. 29-37 - 2 Reviews
        Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff
        The Proper Study of Mankind by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, and Roger Hausheer
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        Gain by Richard Powers
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        The Gun Runner's Daughter by Neil Gordon
        No Safe Place by Richard North Patterson
        Mackerel by Moonlight by William F. Weld
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        Giant by Simon Leys, pp. 48-57 - 2 Reviews
        Victor Hugo: A Biography by Graham Robb
        Shadows of a Hand by Victor Hugo, Florian Rodari, and Ann Philbin
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        New World Disorder by James Chace, pp. 58-63 - 1 Review
        A World Transformed by George Bush and Brent Scowcroft
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        Africa: The Hidden History by K. Anthony Appiah, pp. 64-72 - 1 Review
        Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
      13. Hedge Fund Mysteries by Leon Levy and Jeff Madrick, pp. 73-77
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        God in the Computer by Keith Thomas, pp. 78-80 - 1 Review
        The Religion of Technology by David W. Noble
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        Genuine Reality by Linda Simon
        William James Remembered by Linda Simon
        The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry
        Manhood at Harvard by Kim Townsend
        The Correspondence of William James by Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley, ...
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        On Reflection by Jonathan Miller
      17. Letter by Steven Petranik, pp. 98-100
      18. Cover Drawing by David Levine
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