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Lafayette in Two Worlds, by Lloyd Kramer

by P.N. Furbank

The New York Review of Books, July 11, 1996, pp. 50-52

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        Lola Montez: A Life by Bruce Seymour
      3. [+]
        The Survivor by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 10-15 - 1 Review
        Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy by Nina Sutton
      4. [+]
        The Great Contest by William H. McNeill, pp. 16-19 - 2 Reviews
        The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years by Bernard Lewis
        Cultures in Conflict by Bernard Lewis
      5. [+]
        Who Won the Cold War? by Thomas Powers, pp. 20-27 - 1 Review
        From the Shadows by Robert M. Gates
      6. [+]
        Keystone Killers by John Gregory Dunne, pp. 28-30 - 2 Reviews
        The Price of Experience by Randall Sullivan
        You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again by Terrie Maxine Frankel, Joanne Parrent, and Jennie Louise Frankel, ...
      7. [+]
        The Cabinet of Dr. Haber by M.F. Perutz, pp. 31-36 - 1 Review
        Fritz Haber: Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew by Dietrich Stoltzenberg
      8. [+]
        His Ewe Lamb by Robert Craft, p. 37 - 1 Review
        Wystan and Chester by Thekla Clark
      9. The Hope for Europe by Vaclav Havel, pp. 38-41
      10. [+]
        All About Eames by Martin Filler, pp. 42-47 - 6 Reviews
        Charles and Ray Eames by Pat Kirkham
        Eames House by James Steele#2
        The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, Vol. I (1996 Film) by Charles Eames and Ray Eames
        The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, Vol. II (1989 Film) by Charles Eames and Ray Eames
        The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, Vol. III (1977 Film) by Charles Eames and Ray Eames
        The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, Vol. IV (1993 Film) by Charles Eames and Ray Eames
      11. [+]
        The Marrying Kind by K. Anthony Appiah, pp. 48-54 - 2 Reviews
        The Case for Same Sex Marriage by William N. Eskridge, Jr.
        Virtually Normal by Andrew Sullivan
      12. Emily Dickinson's Banquet of Abstemiousness by Roger Shattuck, pp. 55-58
      13. Goodbye to All That? by James Fenton, pp. 59-64
      14. [+]
        Up to the Minutiae by Michael Wood, pp. 65-66 - 1 Review
        The Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker
      15. [+]
        Anxieties of Influence by Jasper Griffin, pp. 67-72 - 4 Reviews
        Not Out of Africa by Mary Lefkowitz
        Black Athena Revisited by Mary R. Lefkowitz and Guy MacLean Rogers
        The Western Greeks by G. Pugliese Carratelli
        The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity by John Boardman
      16. Letters by Jean Francois Billeter, Simon Leys, and Philip H. Beard, ..., pp. 73-76
      17. Cover Engraving by Dore
  3. [+]
    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1996 = 3 Issues, 52 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 11, 1996 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Shadow Saint by Murray Kempton, pp. 4-5 - 1 Review
        The Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens
      2. Europe by Tony Judt, pp. 6-9
      3. [+]
        The Pleasures of Melodrama by Richard Jenkyns, pp. 10-12 - 1 Review
        George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art by Robert L. Patten
      4. [+]
        The Would-Be Progressives by Garry Wills, pp. 13-16 - 5 Reviews
        They Only Look Dead by E.J. Dionne, Jr.
        In Defense of Government by Jacob Weisberg
        Left for Dead by Michael Tomasky
        Values Matter Most by Ben J. Wattenberg
        The New Promise of American Life by Lamar Alexander and Chester E. Finn, Jr.
      5. [+]
        The Politics of Dignity by Alan Ryan, pp. 17-19 - 1 Review
        The Decent Society by Avishai Margalit
      6. Cabbage and Carrot by Joseph Brodsky, p. 20
      7. [+]
        Goodbye to Affirmative Action? by Andrew Hacker, pp. 21-28 - 5 Reviews
        The Ironies of Affirmative Action by John David Skrentny
        Ending Affirmative Action by Terry Eastland
        In Defense of Affirmative Action by Barbara R. Bergmann
        Divided by Color by Donald R. Kinder and Lynn M. Sanders
        The Future of the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West
      8. [+]
        The Book of Cohen by John Weightman, pp. 29-31 - 1 Review
        Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen
      9. [+]
        How to Win the Tobacco War by Michael Massing, pp. 32-36 - 3 Reviews
        Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger
        The Cigarette Papers by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, and Peter Hanauer, ...
        Smokescreen by Philip J. Hilts
      10. [+]
        The Orpheus of Ulster by James Fenton, pp. 37-41 - 3 Reviews
        The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney
        The Redress of Poetry by Seamus Heaney
        Crediting Poetry by Seamus Heaney
      11. [+]
        Some Versions of Pastoral by Bill McKibben, pp. 42-45 - 4 Reviews
        Dream Reaper by Craig Canine
        Fields Without Dreams by Victor Davis Hanson
        Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry
        The Stork and the Plow by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Gretchen C. Daily, ...
      12. [+]
        Stalin and the Jews by Robert Conquest, pp. 46-49 - 2 Reviews
        Out of the Red Shadows by Gennadi Kostyrchenko
        The Bones of Berdichev by John Garrard and Carol Garrard
      13. [+]
        A Simple Facilitator by P.N. Furbank, pp. 50-52 - 1 Review
        Lafayette in Two Worlds by Lloyd Kramer
      14. [+]
        Mrs. Eddy Builds Her Empire by Caroline Fraser, pp. 53-59 - 4 Reviews
        Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
        "With Bleeding Footsteps" by Robert David Thomas
        Christian Science by Mark Twain
        The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science by Georgine Milmine
      15. The Nation's Progress by Murray Kempton, p. 60
      16. 'How to Succeed in Business' by Thomas M. Doerflinger and Jeff Madrick, p. 60
      17. Letters by Martin Bernal, Jasper Griffin, and Alberto Arbasino, ..., pp. 61-64
    2. [+]
      August 8, 1996 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        Prophet With Honor by Warren Zimmermann, pp. 4-6 - 1 Review
        At a Century's Ending by George F. Kennan
      2. Italian Eclogues by Derek Walcott, pp. 7-8
      3. [+]
        The Ache in Eakins by John Updike, pp. 9-10 - 1 Review
        Thomas Eakins by Helen Cooper
      4. Sokal's Hoax by Steven Weinberg, pp. 11-15
      5. [+]
        O Ye Laurels by David Lodge, pp. 16-20 - 1 Review
        Granta 54: The Best of Young American Novelists by Ian Jack
      6. The Best of Both Worlds by James Fenton, pp. 21-24
      7. [+]
        Anything Goes by Gene Lyons, pp. 25-27 - 1 Review
        Partners in Power by Roger Morris
      8. The Struggle for the Kremlin by Jack F. Matlock, Jr., pp. 28-34
      9. [+]
        All About Evil by Gabriele Annan, p. 35 - 1 Review
        An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel
      10. [+]
        The Would-Be Gentleman by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 36-39 - 1 Review
        William Cooper's Town by Alan Taylor
      11. [+]
        Great Old Modern by Brad Leithauser, pp. 40-43 - 1 Review
        Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays by Richard Poirier, Mark Richardson, and Robert Frost, ...
      12. Sex, Death, and the Courts by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 44-49
      13. Olympic Notes by Prudence Crowther and James Taibi, p. 50
      14. 'The AIDS Heresy' by Peter H. Duesberg and Richard Horton, p. 51
      15. 'France's Hollow Years' by Jaap Querido, Robert J. Soucy, and David Carroll, ..., p. 52
      16. Bosnian War Criminals, p. 53
      17. Letters by Guy MacLean Rogers, Mary Lefkowitz, and Bruce Seymour, ..., pp. 54-56
      18. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    3. [+]
      September 19, 1996 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        Hollywood's Trap by Louis Menand, pp. 4-7 - 6 Reviews
        The Nutty Professor (1996 Film) by Tom Shadyac
        Independence Day (1996 Film) by Roland Emmerich
        Mission: Impossible (1996 Film) by Brian De Palma
        The Rock (1996 Film) by Michael Bay
        Twister (1996 Film) by Jan de Bont
        The Cable Guy (1996 Film) by Ben Stiller
      2. [+]
        The Devil in the Details by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 8-13 - 1 Review
        Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich by David Irving
      3. [+]
        The Deferential Spirit by Joan Didion, pp. 14-19 - 6 Reviews
        The Choice by Bob Woodward
        The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House by Bob Woodward
        The Commanders by Bob Woodward
        Veil by Bob Woodward
        Wired by Bob Woodward
        The Brethren by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
      4. [+]
        Doomsterism by Paul Kennedy, pp. 20-22 - 1 Review
        The Ends of the Earth by Robert D. Kaplan
      5. [+]
        The Road to Kisses by Kenneth Maxwell, pp. 23-25 - 1 Review
        The True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
      6. [+]
        The Consolation of Theosophy by Frederick Crews, pp. 26-30 - 1 Review
        Madame Blavatsky's Baboon by Peter Washington
      7. [+]
        The Pleasure of the Text by Frank Kermode, pp. 31-33 - 1 Review
        Great Books by David Denby
      8. [+]
        Why the Balkans Are So Violent by Misha Glenny, pp. 34-39 - 1 Review
        Love Thy Neighbor by Peter Maass
      9. [+]
        In Pursuit of Fairness by Ian Hacking, pp. 40-43 - 1 Review
        Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Sen
      10. [+]
        Beyond Art by Ingrid D. Rowland, pp. 44-48 - 2 Reviews
        Etruscan Art by Otto Brendel
        The Western Greeks by G. Pugliese Carratelli
      11. [+]
        Getting Things Right by Brad Leithauser, pp. 49-52 - 2 Reviews
        New and Selected Poems by Donald Justice
        Strange Relation by Daniel Hall
      12. [+]
        An Attack in Atlanta by Nicholas Lemann, pp. 53-56 - 1 Review
        The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene
      13. [+]
        The Truth Teller by Helen Vendler, pp. 57-60 - 2 Reviews
        Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy by Carolyn Burke
        The Lost Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy and Roger L. Conover
      14. [+]
        A Tale of Three Leaders by Garry Wills, pp. 61-74 - 4 Reviews
        An Easy Burden by Andrew Young
        Prophet of Rage by Arthur J. Magida
        In the Name of Elijah Muhammad by Mattias Gardell
        Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson by Marshall Frady
      15. 'The AIDS Heresy' by Peter H. Duesberg, Meyer Friedman, and Richard Horton, ..., p. 75
      16. 'Struggle for the Kremlin' by Abraham Brumberg and Jack F. Matlock, Jr., pp. 76-77
      17. Letters by James Martin, S.J., Simon Leys, and Liisa H. Malkki, ..., pp. 78-84
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1996 = 6 Issues, 102 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 3, 1996 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        Whispers from the Abyss by Michael Ignatieff, pp. 4-6 - 3 Reviews
        The Mandelstam and "Der Nister" Files by Peter B. Maggs
        Arrested Voices by Vitaly Shentalinsky
        Intimacy and Terror by Veronique Garros, Natalia Korenevskaya, and Thomas Lahusen, ...
      2. Marble Girls of Athens by Patricia Storace, pp. 7-11
      3. [+]
        Only in Amerika by J.M. Coetzee, pp. 12-15 - 2 Reviews
        The Bride of Texas by Josef Skvorecky
        Headed for the Blues by Josef Skvorecky
      4. A Tale of Two Cities by Garry Wills, pp. 16-22
      5. [+]
        The Beethoven Takeover by Joseph Kerman, pp. 23-25 - 1 Review
        Beethoven Hero by Scott Burnham
      6. On Political Judgment by Isaiah Berlin, pp. 26-30
      7. [+]
        Mexico: Murder Without Justice by Alma Guillermoprieto, pp. 31-35 - 2 Reviews
        The Mexican Shock by Jorge G. Castaneda
        Bordering on Chaos by Andres Oppenheimer
      8. [+]
        Marked Man by John Gross, pp. 36-37 - 2 Reviews
        The Statement by Brian Moore
        Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice by Richard J. Golsan
      9. [+]
        The Consolation of Theosophy II by Frederick Crews, pp. 38-44 - 4 Reviews
        The Occult Roots of Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
        The Jung Cult by Richard Noll
        Remembering Anna O by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
        Madame Blavatsky's Baboon by Peter Washington
      10. [+]
        Mortal Longings by Caroline Fraser, pp. 45-47 - 1 Review
        The White Blackbird by Honor Moore
      11. [+]
        Degas in the Evening by James Fenton, pp. 48-52 - 1 Review
        Degas: Beyond Impressionism by Richard Kendall
      12. Me, the People by Murray Kempton, p. 53
      13. Sokal's Hoax by Michael Holquist, Robert Shulman, and George Levine, ..., pp. 54-56
      14. Letters by Shimon Redlich, Fritz Stern, and Robert Conquest, ..., pp. 57-60
      15. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    2. [+]
      October 17, 1996 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        Discovering the New World by Patrick O'Brian, pp. 4-7 - 2 Reviews
        Travels and Other Writings by William Bartram and Thomas P. Slaughter
        The Natures of John and William Bartram by Thomas P. Slaughter
      2. The Politics of Betrayal by Kanan Makiya, pp. 8-11
      3. [+]
        That's Life by Gabriele Annan, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review
        The Collected Stories by Mavis Gallant
      4. [+]
        Degas in Chicago by James Fenton, pp. 14-18 - 1 Review
        Degas: Beyond Impressionism by Richard Kendall
      5. The Curse of American Politics by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 19-24
      6. Hollywood by John Gregory Dunne, pp. 25-29
      7. [+]
        White Mischief by Jason Epstein, pp. 30-32 - 2 Reviews
        Up from Conservatism by Michael Lind
        The World Turned Right Side Up by Godfrey Hodgson
      8. [+]
        Up Against the Wall by Steve Jones, pp. 33-34 - 2 Reviews
        Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould
        Full House by Stephen Jay Gould
      9. [+]
        Here To Stay by Brad Leithauser, pp. 35-38 - 7 Reviews
        Ira Gershwin by Philip Furia
        The Poets of Tin Pan Alley by Philip Furia
        The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin by Robert Kimball and Ira Gershwin
        Gershwin: His Life and Music by Charles Schwartz
        Lyrics on Several Occasions by Ira Gershwin
        The Memory of All That by Joan Peyser
        Fascinating Rhythm by Deena R. Rosenberg
      10. [+]
        Dream Time by Alan Ryan, pp. 39-42 - 1 Review
        A Tale of Two Utopias by Paul Berman
      11. [+]
        The Hope for China by Fang Lizhi and Perry Link, pp. 43-47 - 1 Review
        Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China by H. Lyman Miller
      12. [+]
        Other People's Wives by Michael Wood, pp. 48-50 - 2 Reviews
        John's Wife by Robert Coover
        The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
      13. At the Heart of Slavery by David Brion Davis, pp. 51-54
      14. Fear and Loathing in Europe by Ian Buruma, pp. 55-60
      15. An Open Letter to Yasir Arafat, p. 61
      16. Letters by William Cookson, Louis Menand, and Carol Garrard, ..., pp. 61-64
    3. [+]
      October 31, 1996 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        In the Wasteland by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
        The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
      2. [+]
        Holy Warrior by Tony Judt, pp. 8-13 - 1 Review
        His Holiness by Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi
      3. [+]
        Faking Picasso by John Richardson, pp. 14-17 - 1 Review
        Surviving Picasso (1996 Film) by James Ivory
      4. [+]
        Victims and Executioners by Bernard Knox, pp. 18-21 - 1 Review
        The Jews by Pierre Vidal-Naquet and David Ames Curtis
      5. [+]
        Nights at the Opera by Robert Craft, pp. 22-26 - 1 Review
        Otto Klemperer, His Life and Times: Vol. II, 1933-1973 by Peter Heyworth
      6. There They Go Again by Benjamin M. Friedman, pp. 27-33
      7. [+]
        Losers by Witold Rybczynski, pp. 34-45 - 1 Review
        The New American Ghetto by Camilo Jose Vergara
      8. [+]
        The King of Weird by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 46-53 - 6 Reviews
        H.P. Lovecraft: A Life by S.T. Joshi
        The Dunwich Horror and Others by H.P. Lovecraft and S.T. Joshi
        At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft and S.T. Joshi
        Dagon and Other Macabre Tales by H.P. Lovecraft and S.T. Joshi
        H.P. Lovecraft: Miscellaneous Writings by S.T. Joshi and H.P. Lovecraft
        Selected Letters by H.P. Lovecraft and S.T. Joshi
      9. [+]
        The Myth of Florence by Charles Hope, pp. 54-57 - 1 Review
        Florence: A Portrait by Michael Levey
      10. [+]
        The New Germany by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 58-62 - 1 Review
        The Politics of Memory by Jane Kramer
      11. [+]
        Palm Beach Story by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 63-65 - 1 Review
        About Schmidt by Louis Begley
      12. [+]
        Subject Women by Edmund S. Morgan, pp. 66-69 - 3 Reviews
        First Generations by Carol Berkin
        Founding Mothers and Fathers by Mary Beth Norton
        Women Before the Bar by Cornelia Hughes Dayton
      13. Rwanda by David Rieff, pp. 70-75
      14. Keeping Arafat Occupied by Murray Kempton, p. 76
      15. Letters by Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Denis Donoghue, and Ian Jack, ..., pp. 77-80
      16. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    4. [+]
      November 14, 1996 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Roots of Radicalism by Jared Diamond, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
        Born to Rebel by Frank J. Sulloway
      2. [+]
        The Miracle at Chauvet by E.H. Gombrich, pp. 8-11 - 2 Reviews
        Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave by Jean-Marie Chauvet and Eliette Brunel Deschamps, ...
        Cave Beneath the Sea by Jean Clottes and Jean Courtin
      3. [+]
        Hating Hillary by Garry Wills, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review
        The Seduction of Hillary Rodham by David Brock
      4. [+]
        Gifts of the Greeks by Jasper Griffin, pp. 14-16 - 1 Review
        Dinner with Persephone by Patricia Storace
      5. On Szymborska by Czeslaw Milosz, p. 17
      6. [+]
        Hungary's Revolution: Forty Years On by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 18-22 - 2 Reviews
        The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Gyorgy Litvan, Janos M. Bak, and Lyman H. Legters, ...
        Hungary's Negotiated Revolution by Rudolf L. Tokes
      7. Dole's Three Strikes by Louis Menand, p. 23
      8. [+]
        The Painful Comedy of Samuel Beckett by John Banville, pp. 24-28 - 6 Reviews
        Damned to Fame by James Knowlson
        Samuel Beckett by Anthony Cronin
        The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 by Lois Gordon
        The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 by Samuel Beckett and S.E. Gontarski
        Eleutheria by Samuel Beckett
        Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
      9. [+]
        Million Dollar Legs by Murray Kempton, p. 29 - 1 Review
        Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer by Edward Jay Epstein
      10. [+]
        The Rise & Fall of a Half-Genius by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 30-33 - 2 Reviews
        The Wing of Madness by Daniel Burston
        Mad to be Normal by Bob Mullan and R.D. Laing
      11. [+]
        Something for the Boys by Christopher Hitchens, pp. 34-37 - 2 Reviews
        Executive Orders by Tom Clancy
        Marine by Tom Clancy
      12. [+]
        Poet of Holy Dread by John Bayley, pp. 38-40 - 1 Review
        Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner
      13. [+]
        The Tragedy of Cambodia by William Shawcross, pp. 41-45 - 3 Reviews
        The Pol Pot Regime by Ben Kiernan
        Gecko Tails by Carol Livingston
        Propaganda, Politics, and Violence in Cambodia by Steve Heder and Judy Ledgerwood
      14. [+]
        A Hero of Antislavery by Eric L. McKitrick, pp. 46-50 - 1 Review
        Arguing About Slavery by William Lee Miller
      15. [+]
        The Drama of Gottfried Semper by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 51-56 - 1 Review
        Gottfried Semper by Harry Mallgrave
      16. [+]
        Did Beethoven Have All the Luck by Charles Rosen, pp. 57-62 - 1 Review
        Beethoven and the Construction of Genius by Tia DeNora
      17. An Unholy War by Amos Oz, p. 63
      18. Christian Science by M. Victor Westberg, Robert David Thomas, and Caroline Fraser, ..., p. 63
      19. Letters by Jeri Laber, K. Paul Johnson, and Frederick Crews, ..., pp. 64-68
    5. [+]
      November 28, 1996 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Man in the Otter Collar by Neal Ascherson, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
        Aleksander Wat by Tomas Venclova
      2. [+]
        Modest Proposals by Andrew Hacker, pp. 8-12 - 1 Review
        When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson
      3. [+]
        Bridges to the Invisible by John Updike, pp. 13-15 - 1 Review
        Self-Portrait in Words by Max Beckmann and Barbara C. Buenger
      4. [+]
        The Lying Game by Michael Wood, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        The Tailor of Panama by John le Carre
      5. [+]
        Goldhagen in Germany by Josef Joffe, pp. 18-21 - 1 Review
        Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
      6. [+]
        What Do Women Want? by Diane Johnson, pp. 22-28 - 6 Reviews
        "Bad Girls"/"Good Girls" by Nan Bauer Maglin and Donna Perry
        Feminism Is Not the Story of My Life by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
        She Works/He Works by Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers
        The Sibling Society by Robert Bly
        The Seasons of a Woman's Life by Daniel J. Levinson and Judy D. Levinson
        The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood by Sharon Hays
      7. [+]
        Getting Even by Frank Kermode, pp. 29-31 - 1 Review
        Revenge Tragedy by John Kerrigan
      8. [+]
        Easy Rider by Bill McKibben, pp. 32-34 - 2 Reviews
        The Car That Could by Michael Shnayerson
        Taking Charge by Michael Brian Schiffer
      9. [+]
        Godfather by D. Kern Holoman, pp. 35-38 - 1 Review
        Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886 by Alan Walker
      10. [+]
        The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Stuart Hampshire, pp. 39-41 - 1 Review
        Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, 1872-1921 by Ray Monk
      11. [+]
        The Sky's the Limit by Ian Buruma, pp. 42-47 - 1 Review
        S, M, L, XL by Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, and Jennifer Sigler
      12. [+]
        The Uses of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton, pp. 48-51 - 2 Reviews
        Fascism: Past, Present, Future by Walter Laqueur
        A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 by Stanley G. Payne
      13. [+]
        Bringing Homer Home by Jasper Griffin, pp. 52-55 - 1 Review
        The Iliad/The Odyssey by Robert Fagles, Bernard Knox, and Homer
      14. [+]
        Homage from Catalonia by Raymond Carr, pp. 56-58 - 1 Review
        Visionaries by William A. Christian, Jr.
      15. [+]
        The Supreme Fiction by Denis Donoghue, pp. 59-62 - 3 Reviews
        Soul Says by Helen Vendler
        The Breaking of Style by Helen Vendler
        The Given and the Made by Helen Vendler
      16. In the Pasture by Jorie Graham, pp. 63-64
      17. Drugs and the CIA by Murray Kempton, p. 65
      18. Letters by Robert N. Bellah, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, and Gene Lyons, ..., pp. 65-68
      19. Cover engraving by Grandville
    6. [+]
      December 19, 1996 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        Murder and Memory by Hilary Mantel, pp. 4-9 - 1 Review
        Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
      2. [+]
        Last Chance for Bosnia? by Warren Zimmermann, pp. 10-14 - 1 Review
        Unfinished Peace
      3. [+]
        But Is It True? by Richard Jenkyns, pp. 15-18 - 3 Reviews
        Schliemann of Troy by David A. Traill
        Lost and Found by Caroline Moorehead
        The Gold of Troy by Vladimir Tolstikov and Mikhail Treister
      4. [+]
        High in the Lower Depths by Nicholas Lemann, pp. 19-21 - 1 Review
        Rosa Lee by Leon Dash
      5. Israel and the End of Zionism by Amos Elon, pp. 22-30
      6. [+]
        The Power of Chastity by Fiona MacCarthy, pp. 31-33 - 2 Reviews
        Sisters in Arms by Jo Ann Kay McNamara
        Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy by Daniel Bornstein, Roberto Rusconi, and Margery J. Schneider, ...
      7. [+]
        Gorbachev by Jack F. Matlock, Jr., pp. 34-41 - 2 Reviews
        Memoirs by Mikhail Gorbachev
        The Gorbachev Factor by Archie Brown
      8. [+]
        The Village Genius by Anne Barton, pp. 42-49 - 1 Review
        Poems of the Middle Period 1822-1837 by John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell, and P.M.S. Dawson, ...
      9. [+]
        The Risks of Witness by Jonathan Spence, pp. 50-53 - 1 Review
        Troublemaker by Harry Wu and George Vecsey
      10. [+]
        Magnificent Obsession by Geoffrey O'Brien, pp. 54-60 - 1 Review
        Vertigo (1958 Film) by Alfred Hitchcock
      11. [+]
        A Banner With a Strange Device by James Fenton, pp. 61-67 - 1 Review
        Jasper Johns: A Retrospective by Kirk Varnedoe and Jasper Johns
      12. [+]
        Social Security and Its Discontents by Jeff Madrick, pp. 68-72 - 4 Reviews
        Restoring Hope in America by Sam Beard
        Frightening America's Elderly by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
        Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old? by Peter G. Peterson
        Social Security in the Twenty-First Century by Eric R. Kingson and James H. Schulz
      13. The Cambodian Tragedy, Continued by William Shawcross, pp. 73-74
      14. [+]
        The Art & Politics of the Nativity by Garry Wills, pp. 75-82 - 1 Review
        The Angel Tree by Linn Howard and Mary Jane Pool
      15. The Second Oldest Profession by Murray Kempton, p. 83
      16. Letters by Abraham H. Foxman, Gordon Craig, and Clancy Sigal, ..., pp. 84-88
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
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  Issues of 1997 = 20 Issues, 328 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1998 = 20 Issues, 344 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1999 = 20 Issues, 366 Articles
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Issues of the 2000s = 6 Years, 66 Issues, 1,270 Articles
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  Issues of 2000 = 20 Issues, 380 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 2005 = 1 Issue, 17 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 2006 = 6 Issues, 97 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 2007 = 9 Issues, 166 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 2008 = 13 Issues, 286 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 2009 = 17 Issues, 324 Articles
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Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles