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January 15, 1998 Issue
- 19 Articles
[+]
True Confessions
(Review)
Elizabeth Hardwick
, pp. 4-9
Truman Capote, by George Plimpton
Truman Capote
by George Plimpton
[+]
Missing Persons
(Review)
Tatyana Tolstaya
, pp. 10-13
The Commissar Vanishes, by David King
The Commissar Vanishes
by David King
[+]
Lost Horizons
(2 Reviews)
Pico Iyer
, pp. 14-16
Kundun (1997 Film), by Martin Scorsese
Kundun (1997 Film)
by Martin Scorsese
Seven Years in Tibet (1997 Film)
by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Thimble Theater
Luc Sante
, pp. 17-20
Instead of NATO
Ronald Steel
, pp. 21-23
The Charms of NATO
Vaclav Havel
, pp. 24-25
[+]
The Outsider
(Review)
John Weightman
, pp. 26-29
Albert Camus: A Life, by Olivier Todd
Albert Camus: A Life
by Olivier Todd
[+]
Lost
(2 Reviews)
Neal Ascherson
, pp. 30-31
As If: A Crime, a Trial, a Question of Childhood, by Blake Morrison
As If: A Crime, a Trial, a Question of Childhood
by Blake Morrison
The Missing
by Andrew O'Hagan
[+]
Playboy of the Roman World
(4 Reviews)
Bernard Knox
, pp. 32-36
The Poet and the Prince, by Alessandro Barchiesi
The Poet and the Prince
by Alessandro Barchiesi
After Ovid
by Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun
Tales from Ovid
by Ted Hughes
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
by David R. Slavitt and Ovid
[+]
High Flier
(Review)
A. Alvarez
, pp. 37-39
Burning the Days, by James Salter
Burning the Days
by James Salter
[+]
Object Lessons
(Review)
James Fenton
, pp. 40-44
Photography: An Independent Art, by Mark Haworth-Booth
Photography: An Independent Art
by Mark Haworth-Booth
[+]
The Mahdi's Bullet
(Review)
Gabriele Annan
, p. 45
The Magician's Wife, by Brian Moore
The Magician's Wife
by Brian Moore
[+]
A Finished Woman
(Review)
P.N. Furbank
, pp. 46-49
The Portrait of Zelide, by Geoffrey Scott
The Portrait of Zelide
by Geoffrey Scott
International Silent Film Festival, Pordenone, Italy
Garry Wills
, pp. 50-51
[+]
On the Brink
(3 Reviews)
Tony Judt
, pp. 52-58
"One Hell of a Gamble", by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy J. Naftali
"One Hell of a Gamble"
by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy J. Naftali
The Kennedy Tapes
by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow
The Other Missiles of October
by Philip Nash
'In the Palace of Nightmares'
Ismail Kadare and Noel Malcolm
, p. 59
An Exchange
'Making the Wrong Joyce'
Danis Rose and John Kidd
, p. 60
An Exchange
Letters
Raphael Falk, J.C. Woodrow, Dr. J. Cohen, and William Pfaff, ...
, pp. 61-64
Cover Photograph: Truman Capote
Harold Halma
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