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Insider Baseball

by Joan Didion

The New York Review of Books, October 27, 1988, pp. 19-31

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        The Gorbachev Prospect by George F. Kennan, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review
        Perestroika by Mikhail Gorbachev
      2. On James Baldwin (1924-1987) by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 8-10
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        The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama
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        Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
        That Night by Alice McDermott
        Cigarettes by Harry Mathews
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        Mrs. Wharton in New York by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 28-34 - 5 Reviews
        The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
        The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
        The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton
        Edith Wharton: A Biography by R.W.B. Lewis
        Portrait of Edith Wharton by Percy Lubbock
      8. Nixon in Brooklyn by Jonathan Lieberson, pp. 35-36
      9. Was There a Witch Hunt in Ancient Athens? by I.F. Stone, pp. 37-41
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        The Chinese Behemoth by John K. Fairbank, pp. 42-45 - 2 Reviews
        The Great Enterprise by Frederic Wakeman Jr.#2
        The Chinese Emperor by Jean Levi
      11. Islamic Revolution by Bernard Lewis, pp. 46-49
      12. Nicaragua by Jane Burnett and James Chace, p. 50
      13. Letters by Philip Siegelman, Kathleen Tynan, and John Osborne, ..., pp. 51-56
      14. Cover Drawing by David Levine
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      February 4, 1988 Issue = 13 Articles
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        Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 1903-1939 by Martin Stannard
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        The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
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        Brancusi by Radu Varia
        Brancusi by Pontus Hulten, Natalia Dumitresco, and Alexandre Istrati, ...
      4. Turkey's Nonpeople by Jeri Laber, pp. 14-16
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        The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
        The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
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        The Cost of Bigness by James Joll, pp. 19-21 - 1 Review
        The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
      7. The Threat to the INF Treaty by Arlen Specter, pp. 22-23
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        Hunting the Homunculus by J.Z. Young, pp. 24-25 - 1 Review
        Neural Darwinism by Gerald M. Edelman
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        The Franco Regime, 1936-1975 by Stanley G. Payne
      10. Israel by Arthur Hertzberg, pp. 30-32
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        Chaucer by Donald R. Howard
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        The Polemical Philosopher by William Gass, pp. 35-44 - 5 Reviews
        Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
        Conversations with Nietzsche by Sander L. Gilman
        Postponements by David Farrell Krell
        Nietzsche, "the Last Antipolitical German" by Peter Bergmann
        Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas
      13. Cover photo by Moshe Milner
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      February 18, 1988 Issue = 16 Articles
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        Star by John Gross, pp. 3-4 - 1 Review
        Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
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        Blood Sport by Garry Wills, pp. 5-7 - 4 Reviews
        The Manly Art by Elliott J. Gorn
        John L. Sullivan and His America by Michael T. Isenberg
        Beyond the Ring by Jeffrey T. Sammons
        On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates
      3. Restoring American Independence by Felix Rohatyn, pp. 8-10
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        A Game of Dark by William Mayne
        Salt River Times by William Mayne
        Max's Dream by William Mayne
        A Parcel of Trees by William Mayne
        While the Bells Ring by William Mayne
        Underground Alley by William Mayne
        Earthfasts by William Mayne
        Winter Quarters by William Mayne
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        The Last Emperor (1987 Film) by Bernardo Bertolucci
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        From Emperor to Citizen by Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi
        The Last Emperor by Edward Behr
        The Last Manchu by Henry Pu Yi and Paul Kramer
        A Dream of Tartary by Henry McAleavy
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        Wilhelm II: The Kaiser's Personal Monarchy, 1888-1900 by John C.G. Rohl
        Max Weber and German Politics, 1890-1920 by Wolfgang J. Mommsen
        Max Weber and His Contemporaries by Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Jurgen Osterhammel
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        Turn-Of-The-Century Cabaret by Harold B. Segel
        Paris: The Musical Kaleidoscope, 1870-1925 by Elaine Brody
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        China Watch by John King Fairbank
        The Great Chinese Revolution, 1800-1985 by John King Fairbank
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        The American Founding by Ralph A. Rossum and Gary L. McDowell
        The Complete Anti-Federalist by Herbert J. Storing and Murray Dry
        Constitutionalism and Rights by Gary C. Bryner and Noel B. Reynolds
        The Founders' Constitution by Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner
        The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution by Leonard W. Levy and Dennis J. Mahoney
        The Moral Foundations of the American Republic by Robert H. Horwitz
        Saving the Revolution by Charles R. Kesler
        Taking the Constitution Seriously by Walter Berns
        The Thinking Revolutionary by Ralph Lerner
      13. The Lindbergh Case by Ludovic Kennedy, Francis Russell, and Anthony Scaduto, ..., p. 40
      14. Letter by Joanne Landy, p. 41
      15. A Time for Jeremiah by Murray Kempton, pp. 41-44
      16. Cover drawing by Thomas Nast
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      March 3, 1988 Issue = 14 Articles
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        Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
      2. 'Tolstoy' by Vladimir Nabokov, p. 6
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        Robert Lowell: Collected Prose by Robert Giroux and Robert Lowell
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        The Dead (1987 Film) by John Huston
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        Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography by E.H. Gombrich
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        The Cambridge History of Latin America by Leslie Bethell
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        Black Robes, White Justice by Bruce Wright
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        The Afrocentric Idea by Molefi Kete Asante
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        Iran and the West by Cyrus Ghani
      13. Letters by Herbert Aptheker, C. Vann Woodward, and Mark R. Parris, ..., pp. 43-48
      14. Cover Photograph by Patrice Chauvel
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        The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
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        Aerie Visions by Garry Wills, p. 7 - 1 Review
        The Rise of American Air Power by Michael S. Sherry
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        Pseudo-Science and Society in Nineteenth-Century America by Arthur Wrobel
      4. On the Pursuit of the Ideal by Isaiah Berlin, pp. 11-18
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        Handel's Operas, 1704-1726 by Winton Dean and John Merrill Knapp
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        Different People by Donald Richie
        Remaking Japan by Theodore Cohen and Herbert Passin
        The Japanese Educational Challenge by Merry White
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        Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew by Dan Vittorio Segre
        The Italians and the Holocaust by Susan Zuccotti
      2. A Stone's Throw by Anton Shammas, pp. 9-11
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        The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone
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        George Balanchine, Ballet Master by Richard Buckle and John Taras
        Balletmaster by Moira Shearer
        Dancing on My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland and Greg Lawrence
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        The Literary Guide to the Bible by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode
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        Nuclear Wizards by Lord Zuckerman, pp. 26-31 - 3 Reviews
        Rabi: Scientist and Citizen by John S. Rigden
        Toward a Livable World by Helen S. Hawkins, G. Allen Greb, and Gertrud Weiss Szilard, ...
        Better a Shield Than a Sword by Edward Teller
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        The New Shakespeare? by E.A.J. Honigmann, pp. 32-35 - 1 Review
        Shakespearean Negotiations by Stephen Greenblatt
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        The Way We Live Now by Robert Towers, pp. 36-37 - 2 Reviews
        The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
        Found in the Street by Patricia Highsmith
      9. Pushkin, or the Real and the Plausible by Vladimir Nabokov, pp. 38-42
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        Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis
        Capitalism and Antislavery by Seymour Drescher
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        George Santayana: A Biography by John McCormick
        Persons and Places: The Background of My Life by George Santayana
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      15. Cover photograph by Bhupendra Karia
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        The Age of Empire: 1875-1914 by Eric J. Hobsbawm
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        News from Elsewhere by Irving Howe, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Arabesques by Anton Shammas
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        Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate by Eli N. Evans
      4. Report from the Uprising by Amos Elon, pp. 10-14
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        Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd
        The Family Romance of the Impostor-Poet Thomas Chatterton by Louise J. Kaplan
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        William James: Writings 1902-1910 by Bruce Kuklick and William James
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        Diary, Vol. I by Witold Gombrowicz and Jan Kott
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        Catholics, Anglicans, and Puritans by Hugh Trevor-Roper
        Archbishop William Laud by Charles Carlton
        Clarendon and His Friends by Richard Lawrence Ollard
        Anti-Calvinists by Nicholas Tyacke
      10. The Mystery of Max Eitingon by Theodore Draper, pp. 32-42
      11. 'Romantic Originals' by Hugh Amory and Charles Rosen, p. 43
      12. Letters by Benjamin R. Barber, Gordon S. Wood, and Steven Ross, ..., pp. 44-48
      13. Cover photograph by Nadezhda Plevitskaya
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        The Power Game by Hedrick Smith
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        Heartsick by Michael Wood, pp. 6-9 - 1 Review
        Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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        House of Dreams by Marie Brenner
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        The Military Revolution by Geoffrey Parker
        The Mask of Command by John Keegan
        Strategy by Edward N. Luttwak
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        Setting Limits by Daniel Callahan
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        Where the Spirits Dwell by Tobias Schneebaum
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        The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
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        Feminist Milton by Joseph A. Wittreich
        Puritan Legacies by Keith W.F. Stavely
        The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 by Michael McKeon
        The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution by Margaret C. Jacob
      12. Getting to Sack the General by James Chace, pp. 49-55
      13. Gore Vidal's 'Lincoln' by Gore Vidal and C. Vann Woodward, pp. 56-57
      14. Islamic Revolution by Tomis Kapitan, Abbas Milani, and Bernard Lewis, pp. 58-59
      15. Letters by Jacek Bochenski, Peter Collier, and David Horowitz, ..., pp. 60-64
      16. Cover illustration by Felix Valloton
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      May 12, 1988 Issue = 16 Articles
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        The Woman Who Rode Away by Alison Lurie, pp. 3-4 - 2 Reviews
        Trust Me by John Updike
        S. by John Updike
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        Not So Grand Strategy by Paul Kennedy, pp. 5-9 - 1 Review
        Discriminate Deterrence by Fred C. Ikle and Albert Wohlstetter
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        The Statue Within by Francois Jacob
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        The Education of Julius Caesar by Arthur D. Kahn
        Caesar by Christian Meier
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        Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987 Film) by Louis Malle
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        Reconstruction by Eric Foner
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        Sidney Bechet by John Chilton
        Jazz Odyssey by Joe Darensbourg and Peter Vacher
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        Rachel's 'Jewish Sofa' by Gordon Craig, pp. 41-43 - 2 Reviews
        Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin by Deborah Hertz
        Jettchen Gebert by Georg Hermann and Bernhard Kaufhold
      10. [+]
        Big Shots by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 44-47 - 4 Reviews
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        Boone by T. Boone Pickens, Jr.
        Merger Mania by Ivan F. Boesky
        Behind the Scenes by Michael K. Deaver and Mickey Herskowitz
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        The Historian as Populist by Michael Kazin, pp. 48-50 - 1 Review
        Power and Culture by Herbert G. Gutman and Ira Berlin
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      13. Les Miserables in New York by Murray Kempton, p. 59
      14. 'Restoring American Independence' by Anthony M. Solomon and Felix Rohatyn, p. 60
      15. Letters by Sidney Hook, M.F. Burnyeat, Paul N. Siegel, and Marilyn Vogt-Downey, ..., pp. 61-64
      16. Cover illustration by Erhard Reuwich
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      June 2, 1988 Issue = 13 Articles
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        His Brilliant Career by H.R. Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln by Bernard Wasserstein
      2. Mission to Moscow by Jeri Laber, pp. 6-8
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        Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
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        The Genealogy of Demons by Robert Casillo
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        The Yellow Wind by David Grossman
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        The Collected Poems, 1931-1987 by Czeslaw Milosz
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      13. Cover photograph by Lowell Handler
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        Big Buddy by Garry Wills, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        For the Record by Donald T. Regan
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      13. 'The Mystery of Max Eitingon' by Stephen Schwartz, Vitaly Rapoport, and Theodore Draper, ..., pp. 50-54
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      15. Cover Drawing by David Levine
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      8. [+]
        The Triumph of Sin by W.H.C. Frend, pp. 27-29 - 1 Review
        Adam, Eve, and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels
      9. [+]
        Alien by D.A.N. Jones, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review
        The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
      10. The Scandal of 'Ulysses' by John Kidd, pp. 32-39
      11. Jamming the Jazz Section by Josef Skvorecky, pp. 40-42
      12. [+]
        Seeing Stars by Martin Gardner, pp. 43-45 - 4 Reviews
        Where's the Rest of Me? by Ronald Reagan and Richard G. Hubler
        Astrology for Adults by Joan Quigley
        Astrology for Teens by Angel Star
        Astrology for Parents of Children and Teenagers by Joan Quigley
      13. The Real Reagan Economy by Emma Rothschild, pp. 46-52
      14. At the Summit by Murray Kempton, p. 53
      15. Letter by Alison Lurie, pp. 54-56
      16. Cover Drawing by David Levine
  3. [+]
    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1988 = 3 Issues, 54 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 21, 1988 Issue = 13 Articles
      1. The Prophet of Broadway by Jonathan Lieberson, pp. 3-6
      2. [+]
        Reagan's Victims by Christopher Lasch, pp. 7-8 - 1 Review
        The New Politics of Old Values by John Kenneth White
      3. [+]
        Odd Man Out by Peter Jenkins, pp. 9-11 - 1 Review
        The Stalker Affair by John Stalker
      4. [+]
        Free Spirits by Geoffrey O'Brien, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review
        Romantic Comedy in Hollywood, from Lubitsch to Sturges by James Harvey
      5. [+]
        In Love with Hitler by John Lukacs, pp. 14-16 - 1 Review
        The Goebbels Diaries, 1942-1943 by Louis P. Lochner and Joseph Goebbels
      6. [+]
        Rx from RN by James Fallows, pp. 17-18 - 1 Review
        1999: Victory Without War~~Nineteen Ninety-Nine: Victory Without War by Richard M. Nixon
      7. [+]
        The Triumph of Picasso by John Golding, pp. 19-25 - 1 Review
        Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington
      8. [+]
        A Revolutionary Hero by Raymond Carr, pp. 26-28 - 3 Reviews
        Inside the Monster by Jose Marti and Philip Foner
        Our America by Jose Marti
        On Art and Literature by Jose Marti
      9. In Gorbachev's Russia by Murray Kempton, p. 29
      10. [+]
        Islam and Power Politics by Shaul Bakhash, pp. 30-32 - 5 Reviews
        The Neglected Duty by Johannes J.G. Jansen
        Muslim Extremism in Egypt by Gilles Kepel
        The Islamic Struggle in Syria by Umar F. Abd-Allah
        Interpretations of Islam by Emmanuel Sivan
        The Political Language of Islam by Bernard Lewis
      11. The Reagan Economic Legacy by Emma Rothschild, pp. 33-41
      12. Letters by Bernard Susser, Anton Shammas, and Czeslaw Milosz, ..., pp. 42-48
      13. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    2. [+]
      August 18, 1988 Issue = 20 Articles
      1. [+]
        'New Votuhs' by Garry Wills, pp. 3-5 - 4 Reviews
        The Best Congress Money Can Buy by Philip M. Stern
        Why Americans Don't Vote by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward
        Whose Votes Count? by Abigail M. Thernstrom
        Character by Gail Sheehy
      2. [+]
        From the Grassy Knoll by Robert Towers, pp. 6-7 - 1 Review
        Libra by Don DeLillo
      3. [+]
        The Streak of Streaks by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 8-12 - 1 Review
        Streak: Joe Dimaggio and the Summer of '41 by Michael Seidel
      4. An Open Letter to Elie Weisel by Arthur Hertzberg, pp. 13-14
      5. [+]
        Church Going by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 15-20 - 4 Reviews
        Jonathan Edwards by Perry Miller
        Fathers of Victorians by Ford K. Brown
        Free Love and Heavenly Sinners by Robert Shaplen
        Redemptorama by Carol Flake
      6. [+]
        The Ideal Woman by Robert M. Adams, pp. 21-24 - 1 Review
        Jane Austen: Her Life by Park Honan
      7. [+]
        Oedipus at Berggasse 19 by William J. McGrath, pp. 25-29 - 2 Reviews
        Freud: A Life for Our Time by Peter Gay
        A Godless Jew by Peter Gay
      8. [+]
        The Promised Land by Gabriele Annan, pp. 30-32 - 3 Reviews
        Confessions of a Good Arab by Yoram Kaniuk
        Black Box by Amos Oz
        Twilight by Elie Wiesel
      9. [+]
        The Honorary Negro by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 33-35 - 4 Reviews
        Letters of Carl Van Vechten by Bruce Kellner and Carl Van Vechten
        The Tattooed Countess by Carl Van Vechten
        Parties by Carl Van Vechten
        Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman
      10. Resisting Gorbachev by Peter Reddaway, pp. 36-41
      11. [+]
        The Desert Anarchist by Bill McKibben, pp. 42-44 - 6 Reviews
        The Best of Edward Abbey by Edward Abbey
        One Life at a Time, Please by Edward Abbey
        Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
        The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
        Down the River by Edward Abbey
        Beyond the Wall by Edward Abbey
      12. [+]
        Hungary by Istvan Deak, pp. 45-49 - 6 Reviews
        Hungary and the Soviet Bloc by Charles Gati
        Show Trials by George H. Hodos
        Selected Speeches and Interviews by Janos Kadar
        1956: Counter-Revolution in Hungary~~Nineteen Fifty-Six: Counter-Revolution in Hungary by Janos Berecz
        Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956 by Reg Gadney
        The Velvet Prison by Miklos Haraszti
      13. [+]
        The Residue of Genius by Joseph Kerman, p. 50 - 2 Reviews
        1791: Mozart's Last Year~~Seventeen Ninety-One: Mozart's Last Year by H.C. Robbins Landon
        Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores by Alan Tyson
      14. The Moscow Convention by Murray Kempton, p. 51
      15. The Big Muddle in France by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 52-56
      16. [+]
        AIDS Without End by Diane Johnson and John F. Murray, M.D., pp. 57-62 - 2 Reviews
        Report of the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic by James D. Watkins
        And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
      17. 'The Scandal of Ulysses' by Hans Walter Gabler, John Updike, and Robert M. Adams, ..., pp. 63-65
      18. Vidal's 'Lincoln' by Harold Holzer, Richard N. Current, and Gore Vidal, ..., pp. 66-68
      19. Letters by Kenneth J. Arrow, Pierre Broue, and Theodore Draper, ..., pp. 69-72
      20. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    3. [+]
      September 29, 1988 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. [+]
        Playing to Win by Jasper Griffin, pp. 3-6 - 2 Reviews
        The Archaeology of the Olympics by Wendy J. Raschke
        Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport by David Sansone
      2. [+]
        A Polish Hero by Neal Ascherson, pp. 7-10 - 2 Reviews
        The King of Children by Betty Jean Lifton
        King Matt the First by Janusz Korczak
      3. [+]
        New York Pastoral by Helen Vendler, pp. 11-12 - 1 Review
        Selected Poems by James Schuyler
      4. Notes from Jerusalem by Irving Howe, p. 13
      5. Exeter Revisited by Joseph Brodsky, p. 14
      6. [+]
        The Strange Case of William Bullitt by Ronald Steel, pp. 15-24 - 1 Review
        So Close to Greatness by Will Brownell and Richard N. Billings
      7. [+]
        Outrageous Things by David Lodge, pp. 25-26 - 1 Review
        The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
      8. [+]
        The Battle Over Post-Modern Buildings by Hugh Honour, pp. 27-33 - 5 Reviews
        Committed to Classicism by Cinzia Maria Sicca
        Quinlan Terry by Clive Aslet
        Classical Architecture by Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre
        The Dilemma of Style by J. Mordaunt Crook
        Post-Modernism by Charles Jencks
      9. [+]
        Death and the Dichter by John Bayley, pp. 34-36 - 3 Reviews
        Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil
        Five Women by Robert Musil
        Robert Musil by Lowell A. Bangerter
      10. [+]
        Odd Man In by David Denby, pp. 37-46 - 2 Reviews
        Elia Kazan: A Life by Elia Kazan
        The Time is Ripe by Clifford Odets
      11. The Morning After by Anton Shammas, pp. 47-52
      12. The Empire in Decay by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 53-59
      13. [+]
        Call of the Wild by Eleanor Perenyi, pp. 60-62 - 1 Review
        My Weeds by Sara B. Stein
      14. [+]
        Gentlemen vs. Players by Noel Annan, pp. 63-69 - 1 Review
        The Pride and the Fall by Correlli Barnett
      15. [+]
        Mind-Reading by Israel Rosenfield, pp. 70-73 - 1 Review
        The Oxford Companion to the Mind by Richard L. Gregory and O.L. Zangwill
      16. [+]
        A Master's Legacy by Brad Leithauser, pp. 74-76 - 2 Reviews
        Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino
        Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
      17. 'In Cuban Prisons' by Debra Evenson and Aryeh Neier, pp. 77-79
      18. The Continuing Scandal of 'Ulysses' by John O'Hanlon, Hans Walter Gabler, and Thomas F. Staley, ..., pp. 80-82
      19. 'Down from Liberalism' by Thomas Sowell and T.M. Scanlon, p. 83
      20. The Dukakis Truce by Murray Kempton, p. 84
      21. Letter by David Stoll, pp. 84-88
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1988 = 6 Issues, 109 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 13, 1988 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. Central Europe by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 3-7
      2. [+]
        Jesus in the Mean Streets by Garry Wills, pp. 8-11 - 1 Review
        The Last Temptation of Christ (1988 Film) by Martin Scorsese
      3. [+]
        Getting Rough on the Poor by Andrew Hacker, pp. 12-17 - 6 Reviews
        Creating the Future by Michael S. Dukakis and Rosabeth Moss Kanter
        Poor Support by David T. Ellwood
        Challenge to Leadership by Isabel V. Sawhill
        Laboratories of Democracy by David Osborne
        The New Consensus on Family and Welfare by Michael Novak
        Remaking the Welfare State by Michael K. Brown
      4. [+]
        Operamania by Philip Gossett, pp. 18-20 - 1 Review
        A Song of Love and Death by Peter Conrad
      5. [+]
        Two Roads to Stockholm by M.F. Perutz, pp. 21-23 - 2 Reviews
        Free Radical by Ralph W. Moss
        In Praise of Imperfection by Rita Levi-Montalcini
      6. [+]
        Vita Nuova by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 24-25 - 1 Review
        The Facts by Philip Roth
      7. The Campaign's Hidden Issue by Benjamin M. Friedman, pp. 26-38
      8. [+]
        The Genius of San Jeronimo by Michael Wood, pp. 39-43 - 2 Reviews
        A Sor Juana Anthology by Alan S. Trueblood and Sor Juana
        Sor Juana, or The Traps of Faith by Octavio Paz
      9. An Interview with Viktor Sosnora by Darra Goldstein and Viktor Sosnora, pp. 44-46
      10. Three Poems by Viktor Sosnora, p. 47
      11. [+]
        Portrait of the Artist by William Gass, pp. 48-52 - 1 Review
        Painting as an Art by Richard Wollheim
      12. [+]
        The Triumph of Will by E.A.J. Honigmann, pp. 53-55 - 1 Review
        Young Shakespeare by Russell Fraser
      13. The Turning Point? by Arthur Hertzberg, pp. 56-59
      14. 'In Cuban Prisons' by Debra Evenson, Aryeh Neier, and Jeri Laber, p. 60
      15. Letters by Yoram Kaniuk, Emil Habibi, Hugh Thomas, and David Baldwin, ..., pp. 61-64
      16. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    2. [+]
      October 27, 1988 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Buried Past by George F. Kennan, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review
        Memoirs by Andrei Gromyko
      2. [+]
        Inventor of Modern Opera by Charles Rosen, pp. 8-13 - 1 Review
        Oeuvres by Caron de Beaumarchais
      3. November Ode by James Merrill, pp. 14-15
      4. [+]
        The Pearl Fisher by John Osborne, pp. 16-18 - 1 Review
        The Magic Lantern by Ingmar Bergman
      5. Insider Baseball by Joan Didion, pp. 19-31
      6. [+]
        Mighty Manchester by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 32-34 - 1 Review
        Infinite in All Directions by Freeman J. Dyson
      7. [+]
        The Exile by Wilfrid Sheed, pp. 35-43 - 1 Review
        In Search of J. D. Salinger by Ian Hamilton
      8. [+]
        Rich Kids by James Fallows, pp. 44-46 - 1 Review
        Old Money by Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr.
      9. Reform or Revolution? by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 47-56
      10. [+]
        The New England by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 57-60 - 1 Review
        Mrs. Thatcher's Revolution by Peter Jenkins
      11. The Lost Moments of History by H.R. Trevor-Roper, pp. 61-67
      12. [+]
        Whose American Renaissance? by Frederick Crews, pp. 68-81 - 8 Reviews
        American Renaissance by F.O. Matthiessen
        The American Renaissance Reconsidered by Walter Benn Michaels and Donald E. Pease
        The Unusable Past by Russell J. Reising
        Ideology and Classic American Literature by Sacvan Bercovitch and Myra Jehlen
        Visionary Compacts by Donald E. Pease
        Sensational Designs by Jane Tompkins
        Beneath the American Renaissance by David S. Reynolds
        Hard Facts by Philip Fisher
      13. Every Eckermann His Own Man by Gore Vidal, pp. 82-83
      14. [+]
        A Star Is Born by Robert Darnton, pp. 84-88 - 1 Review
        Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction by Jean Starobinski
      15. AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag, pp. 89-99
      16. The Sad Degas by Murray Kempton, pp. 100-101
      17. Letters by Hugh Kenner, A. Walton Litz, Joseph Kerman, and Richard Stone, ..., pp. 102-104
      18. Cover Drawing by Edward Gorey
    3. [+]
      November 10, 1988 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Beast in the Jungle by Robert M. Adams, pp. 3-9 - 2 Reviews
        Eliot's New Life by Lyndall Gordon
        The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Vol. I, 1898-1922 by Valerie Eliot, Hugh Haughton, and T.S. Eliot
      2. [+]
        The Kennedys in the King Years by Garry Wills, pp. 10-16 - 3 Reviews
        Remembering America by Richard N. Goodwin
        Robert Kennedy In His Own Words by Edwin O. Guthman and Jeffrey Shulman
        Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch
      3. [+]
        The Flying Dutchman by Shaul Bakhash, pp. 17-19 - 1 Review
        The Shah's Last Ride by William Shawcross
      4. Getting Dressed in the Dark by Vickie Karp, p. 20
      5. [+]
        Members Only by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, pp. 21-23 - 1 Review
        Priapea by William Henry Parker
      6. Bombing in Bayreuth by Jonathan Lieberson, pp. 24-30
      7. [+]
        Roots of Revolution by John K. Fairbank, pp. 31-33 - 2 Reviews
        Ancestors: 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family by Frank Ching
        Half of Man is Woman by Zhang Xianliang
      8. Glasnost Theater by David Joravsky, pp. 34-39
      9. [+]
        Roughing It by Robert Towers, pp. 40-41 - 2 Reviews
        Tracks by Louise Erdrich
        Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
      10. [+]
        Survivor of a Lost World by Carl E. Schorske, pp. 42-43 - 1 Review
        A European Past: Memoirs, 1905-1945 by Felix Gilbert
      11. The Olympics at Seoul by Ian Buruma, pp. 44-49
      12. An Exchange on Perestroika by Silviu Brucan and Peter Reddaway, p. 50
      13. Letters by Jeri Laber, Edward Abbey, Bill McKibben, and Dr. Nicholas Palmer, ..., pp. 51-56
      14. Cover Drawing by Edward Gorey
    4. [+]
      November 24, 1988 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. [+]
        Keeping Up with the Shaws by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review
        Bernard Shaw, Vol. I by Michael Holroyd
      2. [+]
        The Other Russian Army by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 7-11 - 3 Reviews
        Die Geschichte Der Wlassow-Armee by Joachim Hoffmann
        General Wlassow by Sergej Frohlich
        Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement by Catherine Andreyev
      3. [+]
        From Stupidity to Cupidity by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 12-15 - 1 Review
        The Predators' Ball by Connie Bruck
      4. [+]
        Freud's Cordelia by Michael Ignatieff, pp. 16-19 - 2 Reviews
        Anna Freud by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
        My Three Mothers and Other Passions by Sophie Freud
      5. The Kitsch of Israel by Avishai Margalit, pp. 20-23
      6. [+]
        Not So Grimm by Janet Adam Smith, pp. 24-25 - 1 Review
        Dear Mili: An Old Tale by Wilhelm Grimm
      7. [+]
        Heart of Darkness by Murray Kempton, pp. 26-29 - 1 Review
        A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
      8. [+]
        Mr. Know-all by John Bayley, pp. 30-32 - 1 Review
        Tolstoy by A.N. Wilson
      9. [+]
        The Frog Prince by Alison Lurie, pp. 33-34 - 4 Reviews
        Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
        Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor
        Happy to Be Here by Garrison Keillor
        A Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book by Marcia Pankake and Jon Pankake
      10. [+]
        Magic Industry by Derek Walcott, pp. 35-39 - 1 Review
        To Urania by Joseph Brodsky
      11. Poussin in Texas by Richard Wollheim, pp. 40-42
      12. [+]
        Just Say Yes by Keith Thomas, pp. 43-45 - 1 Review
        Inventing the People by Edmund S. Morgan
      13. 'Hungary's New Twist' by Geza Jeszenszky, Maria M. Kovacs, and Istvan Deak, ..., pp. 46-48
      14. 'The Morning After' by Jerome M. Segal, Alvin Z. Rubinstein, and George Jochnowitz, ..., pp. 49-50
      15. Letters by Susan Sontag, Lou Ferleger, Michael Kazin, and Sidney Hook, ..., pp. 51-56
      16. Cover Illustration by George Grosz
    5. [+]
      December 8, 1988 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. [+]
        Slaves and Mistresses by C. Vann Woodward, pp. 3-6 - 1 Review
        Within the Plantation Household by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
      2. [+]
        Is the World Getting Hotter? by Bill McKibben, pp. 7-11 - 4 Reviews
        The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States by Joel B. Smith and Dennis A. Tirpak
        State of the World 1988 by Lester R. Brown
        A Matter of Degrees by Irving M. Mintzer
        The End by Larry Ephron
      3. [+]
        The Last Laugh by Ian Buruma, pp. 12-16 - 1 Review
        Thy Hand, Great Anarch! by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
      4. Not-so Free Speech in Britain by Peter Jenkins, pp. 17-23
      5. Happy Birthday, Elliott Carter by Charles Rosen, pp. 24-25
      6. [+]
        Prophet of Lubyanka by J.M. Cameron, pp. 26-28 - 1 Review
        My Century by Aleksander Wat and Richard Lourie
      7. Proust in Lubyanka by Aleksander Wat, p. 29
      8. [+]
        Play It Again, Sam by Denis Donoghue, pp. 30-34 - 1 Review
        Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
      9. [+]
        Lost Worlds by Peter Partner, pp. 35-39 - 3 Reviews
        Placeways by E.V. Walter
        The Architecture of Exile by Stanley Tigerman
        The Idea of a Town by Joseph Rykwert
      10. On Alexander Podrabinek by Peter Reddaway, p. 40
      11. Soviet Psychiatry by Alexander Podrabinek, pp. 40-42
      12. [+]
        Confessions of a Polymorph by John Weightman, pp. 43-44 - 1 Review
        The Wind Spirit by Michel Tournier
      13. [+]
        The Lovable Analyst by Phyllis Grosskurth, pp. 45-47 - 1 Review
        The Clinical Diary of Sandor Ferenczi by Judith Dupont and Sandor Ferenczi
      14. [+]
        Thanks for the Memory by Francis Haskell, pp. 48-50 - 2 Reviews
        Realms of Memory by Pierre Nora
        Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe by Michael Marrinan
      15. [+]
        Waiting for God in Inglenook by Julian Moynahan, pp. 51-52 - 1 Review
        Wheat That Springeth Green by J.F. Powers
      16. [+]
        The New 'Ulysses' by Charles Rossman, pp. 53-58 - 1 Review
        Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition by James Joyce, Hans Walter Gabler, and Wolfhard Steppe, ...
      17. The Morning After by Murray Kempton, p. 59
      18. Letters by Carlos Ripoll, Raymond Carr, and Joseph M. Colacino, Ph.D., ..., pp. 60-64
      19. Cover Illustration by Grandville
    6. [+]
      December 22, 1988 Issue = 26 Articles
      1. [+]
        Roughing It by Gabriele Annan, pp. 3-5 - 3 Reviews
        High Albania by Edith Durham
        The Passionate Nomad by Isabelle Eberhardt
        My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel
      2. Another Betrayal by Psychiatry? by I.F. Stone, pp. 6-7
      3. Rednecks by V.S. Naipaul, pp. 8-11
      4. Movie by Patricia Storace, pp. 12-13
      5. The Election and the Future: A Symposium by C. Vann Woodward, p. 14
      6. A Spooky Win by Garry Wills, pp. 14-15
      7. The Inept Campaign by Kevin Phillips, pp. 16-17
      8. In an Economic Fix by Benjamin M. Friedman, pp. 18-19
      9. Bush Abroad by Stanley Hoffmann, p. 20
      10. Lessons for Liberals by Christopher Jencks, p. 21
      11. 'Shooters, Inc.' by Joan Didion, p. 22
      12. The Pragmatist by Conor Cruise O'Brien, p. 23
      13. Race in Politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall, pp. 23-24
      14. [+]
        An Artist's Artist by Henry Gifford, pp. 25-27 - 1 Review
        Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free by V.S. Pritchett
      15. A Talk on Gorbachev by Andrei Sakharov, pp. 28-29
      16. [+]
        Beatlephobia by Luc Sante, pp. 30-35 - 7 Reviews
        The Lives of John Lennon by Albert Goldman
        John Lennon, My Brother by Julia Baird and Geoffrey Giuliano
        Imagine: John Lennon by Andrew Solt and Sam Egan
        Imagine (1988 Film) by Andrew Solt
        Yesterday by Chet Flippo
        The Lennon Companion by David Gutman and Elizabeth Thomson
        Tell Me Why by Tim Riley
      17. The Prague Advertisement by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 36-39
      18. Looking Back on Locos by Mary McCarthy, pp. 40-41
      19. [+]
        The Eyewitness Style by Charles Hope, pp. 42-44 - 1 Review
        Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio by Patricia Fortini Brown
      20. [+]
        The Poet in Limbo by Denis Donoghue, pp. 45-48 - 1 Review
        Conrad Aiken by Edward Butscher
      21. [+]
        City Lights by James Joll, pp. 49-53 - 2 Reviews
        Threshold of a New World by Lloyd S. Kramer
        Restoration and Reaction, 1815-1848 by Andre Jardin and Andre-Jean Tudesq
      22. [+]
        Art of Cruelty by Ian Buruma, pp. 54-55 - 2 Reviews
        Hell Screen, Cogwheels, a Fool's Life by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
        Childhood Years by Junichiro Tanizaki
      23. [+]
        In the Dawn's Early Light by Ira Gruber, pp. 56-57 - 1 Review
        The First Salute by Barbara W. Tuchman
      24. [+]
        The Defoe File by Robert M. Adams, pp. 58-60 - 1 Review
        The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe by P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens
      25. The War on Cocaine by Michael Massing, pp. 61-66
      26. Letters by Gabriel Moked, Anton Shammas, and Gilbert M. Johnson, ..., pp. 67-72
10. [+]
  Issues of 1989 = 20 Issues, 333 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 201 Issues, 3,320 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1990 = 21 Issues, 345 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1991 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1992 = 20 Issues, 317 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1993 = 20 Issues, 329 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1994 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1995 = 20 Issues, 326 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1996 = 20 Issues, 335 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1997 = 20 Issues, 328 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1998 = 20 Issues, 344 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1999 = 20 Issues, 366 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 2000s = 6 Years, 66 Issues, 1,270 Articles
1. [+]
  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
[+]
Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles