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May 1989 Issue - 23 Articles- Contributors, pp. 4-5
- Letters to the Editor, pp. 6-15
- The May Almanac, pp. 16-17
Reports & Comment
- Notes: Whodunit?
Daniel Pipes
, pp. 18-23 - Health: Order on the Couch
Joseph Alper
, pp. 24-29 - Religion: Eastern Orthodoxy
John Garvey
, pp. 30-39 - Containing Japan
James Fallows
, pp. 40-50 - Only Alice
Josephine Jacobsen
, pp. 51-55 - Esther
Hanif Kureishi
, pp. 56-60 - Victim of Himself
Marvin Bell
, pp. 61-62 - Reactionary Rhetoric
Albert O. Hirschman
, pp. 63-65 - Crocuses
Linda Pastan
, pp. 66-70 - First Encounters
Edward Sorel and Nancy Caldwell Sorel
, p. 71 - IQ and Falling Birth Rates
R.J. Herrnstein
, pp. 72-80 - Travel: In Galway's Fair City
Cullen Murphy
, pp. 81-83 - Art: Summer Nights at Russell's Corners
Sanford Schwartz
, pp. 84-87 - Sports: Birding by the Numbers
Stu Stuller
, pp. 88-94 Books
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The Saddest Englishman (Review) Peter Davison
, pp. 95-96 Philip Larkin: Collected Poems, by Anthony Thwaite and Philip Larkin
- Philip Larkin: Collected Poems by Anthony Thwaite and Philip Larkin
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Born-Again First Novels (2 Reviews) Benjamin DeMott
, pp. 97-98 Prospect, by William Littlefield
- Prospect by William Littlefield
- Dexterity by Douglas Bauer
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Brief Reviews (7 Reviews) Phoebe-Lou Adams
, pp. 99-100 The Progress of the Seasons, by George V. Higgins
- The Progress of the Seasons by George V. Higgins
- Flaubert: A Biography by Herbert R. Lottman
- The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh
- The Road Through Miyama by Leila Philip
- The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser
- Out in the Midday Sun by Sheridan Morley and Noel Coward
- More Like Us by James Fallows
- Acrostic No. 46
Dorothy Osborne
, pp. 101-102 - The Puzzler
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
, pp. 103-106 - Cover illustration
Robert Grossman