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February 16, 1998
Hanna Rosin
The Octopus
Watching the White House during Monicagate.
December 15, 1997
Adam Kirsch
Unphantasmal Peace
A review of "The Bounty" by Derek Walcott.
October 20, 1997
Margaret Talbot
Gates's Heaven
A look at Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates's home of the future.
October 13, 1997
Sherwin B. Nuland
Doctors and Deities
October 6, 1997
Andrew Delbanco
The Church of Appearances
A review of "Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham"
September 22, 1997
Andrew Sullivan
The Princess Bride
September 8, 1997
Margaret Talbot
From the Stacks: “Chicks and Chuckles”
September 8, 1997
Margaret Talbot
Chicks And Chuckles
Bettie Page and the fate of pleasure in America.
July 7, 1997
Robert Boyers
The Indigenous Berserk
A review of Philip Roth's "American Pastoral"
June 30, 1997
Alexander Star
Finite Jest
May 27, 1997
Sherwin B. Nuland
Hate in the Time of Cholera
March 17, 1997
James Wood
The All of the If
“Moby-Dick” is the great dream of mastery over language.
February 17, 1997
Hanna Rosin
The Return of Pot
California gears up for a long, strange trip.
January 6, 1997
Jonathan Chait
Gift-Giving Is a Waste of Time and Money
December 2, 1996
MagazineJed Perl
Flag Burning
Jasper Johns’s work does have a certain fidgety elegance. But his effects are so drearily localized that the refinements close down a picture instead of pulling us into a world that has an integrity all its own.
August 5, 1996
Stephen Glass
Taxis and the Meaning of Work
Sex, violence, Allah and the American dream
May 27, 1996
Ferdinand Reyher
A Soldier Explains What It Was Like In the World War I Trenches
May 13, 1996
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MagazineMargaret Talbot
Les Très Riches Heures de Martha Stewart
Stewart demands perfection from herself—and her acolytes.
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November 20, 1995
Michael Lewis
Ben Bradlee Had a Talent for a Specific Kind of Trouble
He sold himself as an outsider while he was in many ways the consummate insider.
October 30, 1995
Jennifer Bradley
Indulgences
A dispatch from Pope John Paul II's spectacle-filled visit to Camden Yards in 1995

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