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The New York Review of Books, May 15, 1997, p. 17

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        Conservatives, Nice and Nasty by Alan Ryan, pp. 27-31 - 2 Reviews
        Growing Up Republican: Christie Whitman by Patricia Beard
        Christine Todd Whitman by Art Weissman
      8. [+]
        Lessons of an Immoderate Master by John Gross, pp. 32-37 - 2 Reviews
        F.R. Leavis: Essays and Documents by Ian MacKillop, Richard Storer, and F.R. Leavis
        F. R. Leavis: A Literary Biography by G. Singh
      9. [+]
        Memories of Hell by Istvan Deak, pp. 38-43 - 9 Reviews
        Facing the Extreme by Tzvetan Todorov
        Am I a Murderer? by Calel Perechodnik
        Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo
        Death Comes in Yellow by Felicja Karay
        The Order of Terror by Wolfgang Sofsky
        The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak by Alan Adelson and Dawid Sierakowiak
        Did the Children Cry? by Richard C. Lukas
        Is the Holocaust Unique? by Alan S. Rosenbaum
        Trap with a Green Fence by Richard Glazar
      10. [+]
        Fruits of the Loom by Mary Lefkowitz, pp. 44-46 - 1 Review
        Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
      11. Evolution by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 47-52
      12. [+]
        Welcome to Moor by D.J. Enright, pp. 53-54 - 1 Review
        The Dog King by Christoph Ransmayr
      13. Tagore and His India by Amartya Sen, pp. 55-63
      14. The Cost of Living by Robert J. Gordon, Zvi Griliches, and Jeff Madrick, ..., pp. 64-66
      15. An Exchange on Gorbachev by Archie Brown, Donald N. Jensen, and Jack F. Matlock, Jr., ..., p. 67
      16. Letters by Bertram Fields, Josef Joffe, Jared Diamond, and William H. McNeill, ..., pp. 68-72
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
  3. [+]
    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1997 = 3 Issues, 53 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 17, 1997 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        Paradise in a Dream by Richard Holmes, pp. 4-6 - 1 Review
        The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
      2. [+]
        Perseverance to the Point of Madness by Michael Wood, pp. 7-11 - 2 Reviews
        Charlie Chaplin and His Times by Kenneth S. Lynn
        Tramp by Joyce Milton
      3. [+]
        Living in Truth by Liu Binyan, pp. 12-17 - 1 Review
        The Courage to Stand Alone by Jingsheng Wei
      4. On Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' by Ted Hughes, p. 18
      5. Peleus and Thetis by Ovid, p. 19
      6. [+]
        Goodbye to All That by Christopher Hitchens, pp. 20-23 - 2 Reviews
        Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
        The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara, Cintio Vitier, and Aleida Guevara, ...
      7. [+]
        Ceremony of Innocence by Neal Ascherson, pp. 24-26 - 2 Reviews
        Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
        Goodbye to Catholic Ireland by Mary Kenny
      8. Russia After Chechnya by Sergei Kovalev, pp. 27-30
      9. [+]
        No Man's Land by Gabriele Annan, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review
        Reality and Dreams by Muriel Spark
      10. South Africa by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 33-38
      11. [+]
        Go Milk a Fruit Bat! by Steve Jones, pp. 39-41 - 1 Review
        Why Is Sex Fun? by Jared M. Diamond
      12. [+]
        Child's Play by Richard Jenkyns, pp. 42-44 - 1 Review
        Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler
      13. Look Back in Anger by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 45-49
      14. [+]
        Blowing Hot and Cold by J.M. Coetzee, pp. 50-52 - 2 Reviews
        In the Dutch Mountains by Cees Nooteboom
        Roads to Santiago by Cees Nooteboom
      15. [+]
        Cosmic Adventurer by John Weightman, pp. 53-56 - 2 Reviews
        Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography by Herbert R. Lottman
        Paris in the Twentieth Century by Jules Verne
      16. [+]
        The Mummy's Secret by James Fenton, pp. 57-61 - 3 Reviews
        Ancient Faces by Susan Walker and Morris Bierbrier
        Mysterious Fayum Portraits by Euphrosyne Doxiadis
        Portraits and Masks by Morris Bierbrier
      17. Letters by Thomas Da Costa Kaufmann and Tony Judt, pp. 62-64
    2. [+]
      August 14, 1997 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        Inside the Billway by Louis Menand, pp. 4-7 - 3 Reviews
        Locked in the Cabinet by Robert Reich
        Whatever It Takes by Elizabeth Drew
        Trail Fever by Michael Lewis
      2. The Curse and Blessing of South Africa by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 8-11
      3. Sein of the Times by Geoffrey O'Brien, pp. 12-15
      4. [+]
        Out of the Ruins by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
      5. [+]
        Is the CIA Necessary? by Theodore Draper, pp. 18-22 - 4 Reviews
        Operation PBSUCCESS by Nick Cullather
        CIA and Guatemala Assassination Proposals, 1952-1954 by Gerald K. Haines
        Reflections of a Cold Warrior by Richard Bissell, Jr., Jonathan E. Lewis, and Frances T. Pudlo, ...
        Secrecy by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
      6. [+]
        'Sweet as a Fig' by Joan Acocella, pp. 23-25 - 1 Review
        Secret Muses by Julie Kavanagh
      7. Selling Out Hong Kong by Ian Buruma, pp. 26-27
      8. [+]
        'Monuments to Every Moment' by James Fenton, pp. 28-31 - 1 Review
        Utopia Parkway by Deborah Solomon
      9. Albania by Misha Glenny, pp. 32-36
      10. [+]
        Dusting Off the Declaration by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 37-39 - 1 Review
        American Scripture by Pauline Maier
      11. [+]
        In the Shadows of Prosperity by Jeff Madrick, pp. 40-44 - 1 Review
        Money by Andrew Hacker
      12. [+]
        A Letter to Chamoiseau by Derek Walcott, pp. 45-48 - 1 Review
        Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
      13. [+]
        Hello to Berlin by Anthony Grafton, pp. 49-53 - 7 Reviews
        The Ghosts of Berlin by Brian Ladd
        The Berlin of George Grosz by Frank Whitford
        Adolph Menzel, 1815-1905 by Claude Keisch and Marie-Ursula Riemann-Reyher, ...
        Berlin: The City and the Court by Jules Laforgue
        George Grosz: Berlin-New York by Peter-Klaus Schuster and George Grosz
        Reading Berlin 1900 by Peter Fritzsche
        The Writing on the Wall by Shimon Attie
      14. [+]
        Can You Believe the New York Miracle? by James Lardner, pp. 54-58 - 1 Review
        Fixing Broken Windows by Catherine M. Coles and George L. Kelling
      15. [+]
        The Revenge of Everest by Caroline Fraser, pp. 59-63 - 2 Reviews
        Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
        Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
      16. 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' by Daniel C. Dennett, Robert Wright, and Stephen Jay Gould, ..., p. 64
      17. Letters by Herbert R. Lottman and Mary Lefkowitz, pp. 65-68
      18. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    3. [+]
      September 25, 1997 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Risk of Freedom by Andrew Delbanco, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
        Forbidden Knowledge by Roger Shattuck
      2. [+]
        Seurat and the Sewers by James Fenton, pp. 8-12 - 3 Reviews
        Impressionists on the Seine by Eliza E. Rathbone
        Seurat and the Bathers by John Leighton, Richard Thomson, and David Bomford, ...
        Seurat and the Avant-Garde by Paul Smith
      3. [+]
        The Awful Truth by Sue Halpern, pp. 13-15 - 3 Reviews
        The Story of Junk by Linda Yablonsky
        The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison
        Eve's Apple by Jonathan Rosen
      4. [+]
        Some Like It Hot by Timothy Ferris, pp. 16-21 - 2 Reviews
        The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin and Richard Wagner #2
        Imagined Worlds by Freeman Dyson
      5. [+]
        Secret Sharers by Noel Annan, pp. 22-23 - 1 Review
        The File by Timothy Garton Ash
      6. [+]
        On the 'Virge' by Robert Craft, pp. 24-28 - 1 Review
        Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini
      7. [+]
        Ghosts by Gabriele Annan, pp. 29-31 - 1 Review
        The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
      8. [+]
        The Front Page by Garry Wills, pp. 32-39 - 1 Review
        The Colonel by Richard Norton Smith
      9. Assisted Suicide by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 40-44
      10. [+]
        The Enigma of Philip II by J.H. Elliott, pp. 45-50 - 1 Review
        Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen
      11. Impasse in Kosovo by Aryeh Neier, pp. 51-53
      12. [+]
        Making the Wrong Joyce by John Kidd, pp. 54-56 - 1 Review
        Ulysses: A Reader's Edition by James Joyce and Danis Rose
      13. [+]
        Betrayal by Jonathan Mirsky, pp. 57-60 - 1 Review
        The Last Governor by Jonathan Dimbleby
      14. [+]
        The Vision of Leonardo by Henri Zerner, pp. 61-66 - 1 Review
        Leonardo da Vinci by Otto Letze and Thomas Buchsteiner
      15. [+]
        Success Story by Jack F. Matlock, Jr., pp. 67-74 - 2 Reviews
        The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze by Carolyn M. Ekedahl and Melvin A. Goodman
        My Years With Gorbachev and Shevardnadze by Pavel Palazchenko
      16. 'Memories of Hell' by R.J. Tyndorf and Istvan Deak, p. 75
      17. Letters by Kenneth S. Lynn, Michael Wood, M.G. Piety, and P.A. Bauer, ..., pp. 76-80
      18. Cover: Painting detail by Chesley Bonestell
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1997 = 6 Issues, 106 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 9, 1997 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        Royal Comedy by Ian Buruma, pp. 4-6 - 2 Reviews
        Uncrowned King by Stanley Weintraub
        Mrs. Brown (1997 Film) by John Madden
      2. Royal Tragedy by Ian Buruma, p. 7
      3. [+]
        A Single Jew by Alfred Kazin, pp. 8-9 - 2 Reviews
        Talking Horse by Bernard Malamud, Alan Cheuse, and Nicholas Delbanco, ...
        The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud
      4. [+]
        The Gods of War by Michael Ignatieff, pp. 10-13 - 3 Reviews
        Blood Rites by Barbara Ehrenreich
        The Rosy Future of War by Philippe Delmas
        Postmodern War by Chris Hables Gray
      5. [+]
        'Poet of Resentment' by John Gregory Dunne, pp. 14-18 - 5 Reviews
        Jackie Robinson: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad
        Jackie Robinson by Rachel Robinson and Lee Daniels
        Baseball's Great Experiment by Jules Tygiel
        I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett
        The Jackie Robinson Reader by Jules Tygiel
      6. [+]
        Report from an Undeclared War by Alastair Reid, pp. 19-22 - 1 Review
        News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
      7. [+]
        Thinking About Thinking by Howard Gardner, pp. 23-26 - 1 Review
        The Prehistory of the Mind by Steven Mithen
      8. [+]
        Among the Missing by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 27-28 - 2 Reviews
        The Spoils of War by Elizabeth Simpson
        The Lost Museum by Hector Feliciano
      9. Show Us You Care, Ma'am by Jasper Griffin and Miriam Griffin, p. 29
      10. [+]
        The Multicultural Misunderstanding by K. Anthony Appiah, pp. 30-35 - 2 Reviews
        On Toleration by Michael Walzer
        We Are All Multiculturalists Now by Nathan Glazer
      11. [+]
        Desperate Characters by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 36-38 - 1 Review
        Bear and His Daughter by Robert Stone
      12. [+]
        Why the Cold War Worked by Tony Judt, pp. 39-44 - 2 Reviews
        We Now Know by John Lewis Gaddis
        The Cominform by Giuliano Procacci
      13. [+]
        Slightly Sacred Poet by John Bayley, pp. 45-46 - 1 Review
        Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les A. Murray
      14. [+]
        The Riddle of the French Renaissance by Willibald Sauerlander, pp. 47-50 - 1 Review
        Renaissance Art in France by Henri Zerner
      15. [+]
        The Great Inventor by Charles Rosen, pp. 51-54 - 1 Review
        Bach and the Patterns of Invention by Laurence Dreyfus
      16. Evolutionary Psychology by Steven Pinker, Werner Kalow, Harold Kalant, and Stephen Jay Gould, ..., pp. 55-57
      17. Letter by John Kidd, pp. 58-60
      18. Cover Illustration detail of 'Flanders' by Otto Dix
    2. [+]
      October 23, 1997 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        Feud by Russell Baker, pp. 4-7 - 2 Reviews
        Mutual Contempt by Jeff Shesol
        Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers by David M. Barrett and Lyndon B. Johnson
      2. [+]
        It Happened in Milwaukee by Janet Malcolm, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review
        Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment by Jane Gallop
      3. [+]
        Fantasia by Martin Filler, pp. 10-13 - 1 Review
        Iconography and Electronics Upon a Generic Architecture by Robert Venturi
      4. [+]
        Broken Promises by Larry McMurtry, pp. 14-17 - 5 Reviews
        The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic by Angie Debo
        And Still the Waters Run by Angie Debo
        The Road to Disappearance by Angie Debo
        Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place by Angie Debo
        A History of the Indians of the United States by Angie Debo
      5. [+]
        The Confusion over Cloning by R.C. Lewontin, pp. 18-22 - 1 Review
        Cloning Human Beings
      6. Eugenics, Anyone? by William Pfaff, p. 23
      7. [+]
        Terror in a Small Town by Garry Wills, pp. 24-25 - 1 Review
        Big Trouble by J. Anthony Lukas
      8. India by Roderick MacFarquhar, pp. 26-31
      9. [+]
        Going Half the Way by James Fenton, pp. 32-34 - 1 Review
        O My Land, My Friends by Brom Weber, Langdon Hammer, and Hart Crane
      10. [+]
        The Heart of the Matter by James M. McPherson, pp. 35-47 - 4 Reviews
        Slavery and the American West by Michael A. Morrison
        Days of Defiance by Maury Klein
        Behind the Lines in the Southern Confederacy by Charles W. Ramsdell
        The Confederate War by Gary W. Gallagher
      11. [+]
        Bothered and Bewildered by Alison Lurie, pp. 48-53 - 2 Reviews
        Witches and Neighbors by Robin Briggs
        The Witch in History by Diane Purkiss
      12. [+]
        Family Secrets by Thomas Flanagan, pp. 54-55 - 1 Review
        Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
      13. [+]
        Lady Charlotte's Bulls by Richard Jenkyns, pp. 56-59 - 1 Review
        From Nineveh to New York by John Malcolm Russell
      14. [+]
        The Bloodless War by Thomas Powers, pp. 60-64 - 1 Review
        Battleground Berlin by David E. Murphy, Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey, ...
      15. [+]
        Drunk with Love by Alicia Ostriker, pp. 65-67 - 1 Review
        The Song of Songs by Ariel A. Bloch and Chana Bloch
      16. [+]
        America's Caste System by George M. Fredrickson, pp. 68-75 - 4 Reviews
        Liberal Racism by Jim Sleeper
        America in Black and White by Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom
        A Country of Strangers by David K. Shipler
        The Ordeal of Integration by Orlando Patterson
      17. 'Is the CIA Necessary' by Michael S. Thompson and H. Bradford Westerfield, ..., pp. 76-77
      18. Letters by Regina E. Herzlinger, Andrew Hacker, and Sherrill W. Britton, ..., pp. 78-80
    3. [+]
      November 6, 1997 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        Between Hell and History by Luc Sante, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
        Underworld by Don DeLillo
      2. [+]
        The Voracious Ego by James Fenton, pp. 8-12 - 1 Review
        Robert Rauschenberg by Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson
      3. [+]
        The Set Within the Skull by Steve Jones, pp. 13-15 - 1 Review
        How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
      4. [+]
        Killer Kids by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 16-20 - 1 Review
        The Bad Seed by William March
      5. [+]
        In the Palace of Nightmares by Noel Malcolm, pp. 21-24 - 1 Review
        The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare
      6. The Case of Hannah Arendt by Amos Elon, pp. 25-29
      7. [+]
        The Renaissance Revealed by Ingrid D. Rowland, pp. 30-37 - 10 Reviews
        Renaissance by George Holmes
        Worldly Goods by Lisa Jardine
        Venice and Antiquity by Patricia Fortini Brown
        Art and Life in Renaissance Venice by Patricia Fortini Brown
        Housecraft and Statecraft by Dennis Romano
        Provincial Families in the Renaissance by James S. Grubb
        Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival by Antonia Pulci, James Wyatt Cook, and Barbara Collier Cook, ...
        Autobiography of an Aspiring Saint by Cecilia Ferrazzi and Anne Jacobson Schutte
        Forbidden Friendships by Michael Rocke
        Machiavelli, Leonardo, and the Science of Power by Roger D. Masters
      8. [+]
        What We Like to Forget by J.M. Coetzee, pp. 38-40 - 1 Review
        The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips
      9. On Francois Furet (1927-1997) by Tony Judt, pp. 41-42
      10. [+]
        America's Holy War by Bertram Wyatt-Brown, pp. 43-46 - 1 Review
        For Cause and Comrades by James M. McPherson
      11. [+]
        The Prophet by Alan Ryan, pp. 47-51 - 1 Review
        Women and the Common Life by Christopher Lasch and Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
      12. America's Three Reconstructions by John Higham, pp. 52-56
      13. [+]
        Anglo-Celtic Attitudes by Helen Vendler, pp. 57-60 - 5 Reviews
        Woman Police Officer in Elevator by James Lasdun
        Rest for the Wicked by Glyn Maxwell
        Selected Poems, 1968-1983 by Paul Muldoon
        The Annals of Chile by Paul Muldoon
        Paul Muldoon by Tim Kendall and Peter McDonald
      14. [+]
        Chekhov the Subversive by Aileen Kelly, pp. 61-66 - 3 Reviews
        Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought by Simon Karlinsky and Anton Chekhov
        Chekhov's Plays by Richard Gilman
        Anton Chekhov by Donald Rayfield
      15. Radio Free Yugoslavia by Laura Silber and Veran Matic, p. 67
      16. Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia by Yale Kamisar, Herbert Hendin, M.D., and Ronald Dworkin, ..., pp. 68-72
      17. Cover: detail of 'Untitled [Sue]' 1951 by Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil
    4. [+]
      November 20, 1997 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        Love Story by Tatyana Tolstaya, pp. 4-5 - 1 Review
        Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine
      2. 'Reading Li Po' by Breyten Breytenbach, pp. 6-7
      3. [+]
        Renoir the Radical by Robert L. Herbert, pp. 8-10 - 1 Review
        Renoir's Portraits by Colin B. Bailey
      4. Resume by Luc Sante, pp. 11-12
      5. [+]
        The Case of Cases by Theodore Draper, pp. 13-17 - 2 Reviews
        Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus
        Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein
      6. [+]
        The Long Voyage Home by Alfred Kazin, pp. 18-19 - 1 Review
        Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
      7. [+]
        Man of the People? by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 20-23 - 1 Review
        The Hitler of History by John Lukacs
      8. [+]
        A Life Elsewhere by John Banville, pp. 24-26 - 1 Review
        Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee
      9. [+]
        Looking Good by Michael Wood, pp. 27-31 - 4 Reviews
        Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood by Todd McCarthy
        Who the Devil Made It by Peter Bogdanovich
        The Big Sleep by David Thomson
        Howard Hawks American Artist by Jim Hillier and Peter Wollen
      10. [+]
        Speedy Fred's Revolution by Sean Wilentz, pp. 32-37 - 1 Review
        The One Best Way by Robert Kanigel
      11. [+]
        Points of Order by Richard Jenkyns, pp. 38-40 - 1 Review
        The Platypus and the Mermaid by Harriet Ritvo
      12. Death for Sale by Amos Elon, p. 41
      13. [+]
        Lone Wolf by D.J. Enright, pp. 42-43 - 1 Review
        The Mad Dog by Heinrich Boll
      14. [+]
        As Many Homers As You Please by Hayden Pelliccia, pp. 44-48 - 2 Reviews
        Poetry as Performance by Gregory Nagy
        Homeric Questions by Gregory Nagy
      15. [+]
        Blue Fingernails by Noel Annan, pp. 49-50 - 1 Review
        Violet by Jessica Douglas-Home
      16. [+]
        Doing the Continental by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 51-55 - 1 Review
        The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 by Lester D. Langley
      17. [+]
        The US and the Yugoslav Catastrophe by Mark Danner, pp. 56-63 - 9 Reviews
        Origins of a Catastrophe by Warren Zimmermann
        Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime by Jan Willem Honig and Norbert Both
        Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica by David Rohde
        The Reluctant Superpower by Wayne Bert
        The World and Yugoslavia's Wars by Richard H. Ullman
        Triumph of the Lack of Will by James Gow
        The Serbs by Tim Judah
        Balkan Tragedy by Susan L. Woodward
        American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War by Robert L. Hutchings
      18. 'America's Caste System' by Jim Sleeper, Stephan Thernstrom, and Abigail Thernstrom, ..., pp. 64-68
    5. [+]
      December 4, 1997 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        Nomad by John Ryle, pp. 6-7 - 2 Reviews
        With Chatwin by Susannah Clapp
        Anatomy of Restlessness by Bruce Chatwin
      2. [+]
        A Nice German Lady by James Fenton, pp. 8-9 - 2 Reviews
        The Queen by Ben Pimlott
        The Royals by Kitty Kelley
      3. [+]
        Can Genitals Be Beautiful? by John Updike, pp. 10-13 - 1 Review
        Egon Schiele by Magdalena Dabrowski and Rudolf Leopold
      4. [+]
        India: The Perils of Democracy by Ian Buruma, pp. 14-18 - 2 Reviews
        The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani
        The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India by Christophe Jaffrelot
      5. [+]
        Not Getting the Lesson of the Master by Louis Menand, pp. 19-21 - 2 Reviews
        Washington Square (1997 Film) by Agnieszka Holland
        The Wings of the Dove (1997 Film) by Iain Softley
      6. [+]
        The Drama of Whittaker Chambers by Theodore Draper, pp. 22-25 - 2 Reviews
        Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus
        Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein
      7. The Euro by Josef Joffe, pp. 26-31
      8. [+]
        The Croatians Are Coming by Robert Stone, pp. 32-33 - 1 Review
        Toward the End of Time by John Updike
      9. [+]
        The War Over the Family by Andrew Hacker, pp. 34-38 - 5 Reviews
        The Time Bind by Arlie Russell Hochschild
        The Divorce Culture by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
        The Assault on Parenthood by Dana Mack
        The Way We Really Are by Stephanie Coontz
      10. [+]
        'Ice and Fire and Solitude' by Helen Vendler, pp. 39-42 - 1 Review
        Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose by Frank Kermode, Joan Richardson, and Wallace Stevens, ...
      11. [+]
        Sugihara's List by Murray Sayle, pp. 43-46 - 1 Review
        In Search of Sugihara by Hillel Levine
      12. [+]
        The New Aristocracy by Thomas L. Haskell, pp. 47-52 - 1 Review
        Death of the Guilds by Elliott Krause
      13. [+]
        Passage to Brooklyn by Edwin Frank, pp. 53-54 - 1 Review
        The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman
      14. [+]
        America and the Bosnia Genocide by Mark Danner, pp. 55-64 - 12 Reviews
        A Witness to Genocide by Roy Gutman
        Seasons in Hell by Ed Vulliamy
        The Tenth Circle of Hell by Rezak Hukanovic
        Late-Breaking Foreign Policy by Warren P. Strobel
        The Serbs by Tim Judah
        Rape Warfare by Beverly Allen
        The Bridge Betrayed by Michael A. Sells
        U. S. and Russian Policymaking with Respect to the Use of Force by Jeremy R. Azrael and Emil A. Payin
        The Conceit of Innocence by Stjepan G. Mestrovic
        This Time We Knew by Thomas Cushman and Stjepan G. Mestrovic
        Genocide in Bosnia by Norman Cigar
        Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West by David Rieff
      15. Letters by Johnathan Sunley, Misha Glenny, Louise Asml, and Timothy Garton Ash, ..., pp. 65-68
      16. Cover: 'Act of Love' (1915) by Egon Schiele
    6. [+]
      December 18, 1997 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. [+]
        A Second Assassination by Garry Wills, pp. 4-7 - 1 Review
        The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh
      2. The Three Kings by Adam Zagajewski, pp. 8-9
      3. On Isaiah Berlin, 1909-1997 by Michael Ignatieff, p. 10
      4. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by Stuart Hampshire, p. 10
      5. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by Alfred Brendel, p. 11
      6. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by Aileen Kelly, pp. 11-12
      7. [+]
        The Lion King by Joan Didion, pp. 13-19 - 1 Review
        Ronald Reagan by Dinesh D'Souza
      8. [+]
        American Pie by Diane Johnson, pp. 20-23 - 5 Reviews
        Appetite for Life by Noel Riley Fitch
        A Welcoming Life by Dominique Gioia
        Marcella Cucina by Marcella Hazan
        The All-New Joy of Cooking by Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, and Irma S. Rombauer, ...
        The American Century Cookbook by Jean Anderson
      9. [+]
        A Lost World by Gore Vidal, pp. 24-28 - 1 Review
        New York Mosaic: Three Novels by Isabel Bolton
      10. [+]
        The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Martin Filler, pp. 29-34 - 3 Reviews
        Building the Getty by Richard Meier
        The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections by John Walsh and Deborah A. Gribbon
        Making Architecture by Harold M. Williams, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Stephen D. Rountree, ...
      11. Shadow Cities by Andre Aciman, pp. 35-37
      12. [+]
        The Fabulous La Fontaine by Charles Rosen, pp. 38-45 - 1 Review
        The Poet and the King by Marc Fumaroli
      13. [+]
        West of Downtown by Michael Massing, pp. 46-49 - 1 Review
        The Corner by David Simon and Edward Burns
      14. [+]
        The Pleasures of Reading Hogarth by P.N. Furbank, pp. 50-56 - 3 Reviews
        Hogarth: A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow
        The Analysis of Beauty by William Hogarth and Ronald Paulson
        Hogarth and His Times by David Bindman
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        Their Jewish Problem by Jasper Griffin, pp. 57-59 - 1 Review
        Judeophobia by Peter Schafer
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        The Naked Truth by John Bayley, pp. 60-64 - 1 Review
        The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler
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        Clinton, the UN, and the Bosnian Disaster by Mark Danner, pp. 65-80 - 7 Reviews
        Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime by Jan Willem Honig and Norbert Both
        Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica by David Rohde
        Late-Breaking Foreign Policy by Warren P. Strobel
        Blood and Vengeance by Chuck Sudetic
        The Reluctant Superpower by Wayne Bert
        Triumph of the Lack of Will by James Gow
        Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West by David Rieff
      18. Letters by Michael Straight, Allen Weinstein, and George Bailey, ..., pp. 81-84
      19. Cover: photograph of the Getty Center by Scott Frances
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  Issues of 2005 = 1 Issue, 17 Articles
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  Issues of 2006 = 6 Issues, 97 Articles
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  Issues of 2008 = 13 Issues, 286 Articles
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