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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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Les Très Riches Heures de Martha Stewart
Money, time, and the surrender of American taste
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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
October 16, 1995
Sherwin B. Nuland
The Plague
September 18, 1995
Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich on Richard Ford’s ‘Independence Day’
July 11, 1995
Hans Meyerhoff
The Day Dylan Thomas's Poetic Brilliance Triumphed Over His Sad Alcohol Dependency
He couldn't even pour a glass of water. Then, he began to read his poetry...
May 8, 1995
John Banville
Crabby & Evelyn
John Banville reviews Selina Hastings's 'Evelyn Waugh: A Biography.'
March 27, 1995
Robert Alter
The Leveling Wind
March 6, 1995
Leon Wieseltier
All and Nothing at All
The unreal world of Cornel West
January 9, 1995
Ann Hulbert
Bedtime Barbie
A 1995 toy store quest.