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October 9, 1995 Issue - 18 Articles- Comment: The Victor in Bosnia
William Finnegan
, pp. 5-7 Score one for the racial engineers
- In the Mail, pp. 8-9
- Goings On About Town, pp. 10-30
- The Talk of the Town, pp. 31-35
A historian drafts Powell; Pacino does Shakespeare; a baseball owner as hero; China new...
- Annals of Religion: The Paradoxical Pope
Colm Toibin
, pp. 36-41 American Catholics want reform; John Paul II doesn't---so why is he so popular?
- The Art World: True Grid
Simon Schama
, pp. 42-43 Inscrutable? A modernist? A bording Dutch intellectual? The new Mondrian show reveals t...
- "Things Cheaply Had"
Taslima Nasrin
, pp. 44-49 - Profile: The Politics of Perception
Connie Bruck
, pp. 50-58 Strange that a Speaker of the House should emulate the strategies of the Wehrmacht, Ata...
- "Missing"
Mairi MacInnes
, pp. 59-77 - Fiction: "The Women Who Got Away"
John Updike
, pp. 78-81 The Critics
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A Critic at Large (Review) Adam Gopnik
, pp. 82-87 Lewis Carroll: A Biography, by Morton N. Cohen
- Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton N. Cohen
"Halley's Comet"
- --- by Stanley Kunitz, pp. 88-90
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Recommended Reading The Queen of the Tambourine, by Jane Gardam (4 Reviews) , pp. 91-92 - The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam
- Citizen Sherman by Michael Fellman
- An Italian Education by Tim Parks
- Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oe
- Dancing
Arlene Croce
, pp. 93-94 "Suzanne Farrell Stages Balanchine"
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The Current Cinema (2 Reviews) Anthony Lane
, pp. 95-97 Starkness Visible
- Showgirls (1995 Film) by Paul Verhoeven
- Strange Days (1995 Film) by Kathryn Bigelow
- Image World
Hilton Als
, pp. 98-99 Not exactly the sixties
- Shouts & Murmurs
Anthony Lane
, pp. 100-102 Indignations
- Cover: The Pope in the City
Barry Blitt