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December 18, 1986 Issue
- 16 Articles
Afghanistan's Other War
Jeri Laber
, pp. 3-7
[+]
City Lights
(Review)
Mark Girouard
, pp. 8-9
The City as a Work of Art, by Donald J. Olsen
The City as a Work of Art
by Donald J. Olsen
[+]
On the Edge of Revelation
(Review)
J.M. Coetzee
, pp. 10-12
Five Women, by Robert Musil
Five Women
by Robert Musil
Japan
James Merrill
, pp. 13-18
Prose of Departure
[+]
The Genius of George Herriman
(Review)
Adam Gopnik
, pp. 19-28
Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman, by Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, and...
Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman
by Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, and Georgia Riley de Havenon, ...
[+]
The Wild Blue Yonder
(3 Reviews)
Robert Towers
, pp. 29-33
Diary of a Yuppie, by Louis Auchincloss
Diary of a Yuppie
by Louis Auchincloss
Pubis Angelical
by Manuel Puig
Paper Doll
by Jim Shepard
[+]
The Americans in Space
(3 Reviews)
James Fallows
, pp. 34-48
The Heavens and the Earth, by Walter A. McDougall
The Heavens and the Earth
by Walter A. McDougall
Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
The Aerospace Plane
by Stephen W. Korthals-Altes
[+]
Sex in the Head
(Review)
Martha Nussbaum
, pp. 49-52
Sexual Desire, by Roger Scruton
Sexual Desire
by Roger Scruton
Out of Phase Again
Albert O. Hirschman
, pp. 53-57
[+]
Gulp!
(2 Reviews)
Thomas R. Edwards
, pp. 58-60
It, by Stephen King
It
by Stephen King
Whirlwind
by James Clavell
[+]
A Long Way from Poland
(Review)
Selden Rodman
, pp. 61-63
Poland's Caribbean Tragedy, by Jan Pachonski and Reuel K. Wilson
Poland's Caribbean Tragedy
by Jan Pachonski and Reuel K. Wilson
[+]
Are Tyrants Necessary?
(Review)
W.G. Runciman
, pp. 64-65
At the Dawn of Tyranny, by Eli Sagan
At the Dawn of Tyranny
by Eli Sagan
[+]
Catching Up with the Avant-garde
(8 Reviews)
Roger Shattuck
, pp. 66-74
Bohemian Paris, by Jerrold Seigel
Bohemian Paris
by Jerrold Seigel
Pleasures of the Belle Epoque
by Charles Rearick
France: Fin de Siecle
by Eugen Weber
Theory of the Avant-Garde
by Peter Burger
Poets, Prophets, and Revolutionaries
by Charles Russell
The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918
by Stephen Kern
The Matrix of Modernism
by Sanford Schwartz
Mapping Literary Modernism
by Ricardo J. Quinones
On Fame and the Writer
Stephen Spender
, p. 75
Letters
Sherman E. Lee, Josua Bruyn, Joseph Alsop, and Eleanor Cook, ...
, pp. 76-80
Cover Illustration
George Herriman
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