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A God's Life

God: A Biography, by Jack Miles

by John Barton

The New York Review of Books, November 30, 1995, pp. 7-9

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        Hammer and Hoe by Robin D.G. Kelley
        Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights by Michael K. Honey
        Speak Now Against the Day by John Egerton
      10. [+]
        Dispatches from the New Era by D. Kern Holoman, pp. 40-44 - 1 Review
        The Art of Music and Other Essays by Hector Berlioz and Elizabeth Csicsery-Ronay
      11. [+]
        Kicking the Air by Denis Donoghue, pp. 45-48 - 3 Reviews
        How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
        The Dead School by Patrick McCabe
        Walking the Dog and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty
      12. [+]
        Vases or Pots? by Jasper Griffin, pp. 49-50 - 1 Review
        Artful Crafts by Michael J. Vickers and David Gill
      13. [+]
        Nothing Sacred by P.N. Furbank, pp. 51-55 - 3 Reviews
        The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton
        The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789 by Robert Darnton
        Subversive Words by Arlette Farge
      14. [+]
        India's Virtuoso Builders by Stuart Cary Welch, pp. 56-60 - 2 Reviews
        The History of Architecture in India by Christopher Tadgell
        The Royal Palaces of India by George Michell
      15. [+]
        Behind the Smoke Screen by David Lodge, pp. 61-66 - 7 Reviews
        The Life of Graham Greene: Vol. II, 1939-1955 by Norman Sherry
        Graham Greene: The Man Within by Michael Shelden
        Graham Greene: Three Lives by Anthony Mockler
        Graham Greene by Leopoldo Duran
        Reflections by Graham Greene and Judith Adamson
        A World of My Own by Graham Greene
        The Graham Greene Film Reader by David Parkinson and Graham Greene
      16. Working Girl by Murray Kempton, p. 67
      17. Letters by Arthur Stinchcombe, David Burress, and R.C. Lewontin, ..., pp. 68-72
      18. Cover Drawing by David Levine
  3. [+]
    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1995 = 3 Issues, 58 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 13, 1995 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        Bad Man from Olympus by Thomas C. Grey, pp. 4-7 - 3 Reviews
        Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes by G. Edward White
        The Collected Works of Justice Holmes by Sheldon M. Novick and Oliver Wendell Holmes
        The Essential Holmes by Richard A. Posner and Oliver Wendell Holmes
      2. [+]
        Journey into the Dark by Louis Menand, pp. 8-10 - 1 Review
        The Tunnel by William H. Gass
      3. The Strange Case of Pablo Chapa by John Womack, Jr., p. 11
      4. [+]
        Russia: The Power of the Mob by Jack F. Matlock, pp. 12-14 - 1 Review
        Comrade Criminal by Stephen Handelman
      5. Kolo by Joseph Brodsky, p. 15
      6. [+]
        The Big Sound by Joseph Kerman, pp. 16-20 - 1 Review
        The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen
      7. [+]
        Central Europe: The Present Past by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 21-23 - 1 Review
        The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg
      8. [+]
        George Grosz's Amerika by Ian Buruma, pp. 24-28 - 1 Review
        George Grosz: Berlin-New York by Peter-Klaus Schuster and George Grosz
      9. [+]
        Notes from the Underground by Murray Kempton, pp. 29-33 - 1 Review
        The Secret World of American Communism by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh I. Firsov, ...
      10. [+]
        A Billboard Lovely as a Tree by Henry Allen, pp. 34-35 - 1 Review
        Fables of Abundance by T.J. Jackson Lears
      11. [+]
        Is Homosexuality Inherited? by Richard Horton, pp. 36-41 - 2 Reviews
        The Sexual Brain by Simon LeVay
        The Science of Desire by Dean Hamer and Peter Copeland
      12. [+]
        Ode to the West Wing by Christopher Hitchens, pp. 42-45 - 1 Review
        Shelley's Heart by Charles McCarry
      13. [+]
        A New Way of Seeing by Stuart Hampshire, pp. 46-49 - 1 Review
        Looking at Giacometti by David Sylvester
      14. The New France? by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 50-55
      15. Burma by Hugh Honour, pp. 56-60
      16. Letters by J. Herbie DiFonzo, Norman Mailer, and Catherine Drucker, ..., pp. 61-64
      17. Cover Engraving by Grandville
    2. [+]
      August 10, 1995 Issue = 20 Articles
      1. [+]
        No Laughing Matter by Thomas Powers, pp. 4-6 - 4 Reviews
        Nightmover by David Wise
        Betrayal by Tim Weiner, David Johnston, and Neil A. Lewis
        Killer Spy by Peter Maas
        Sellout by James Adams
      2. [+]
        The Teachings of Speaker Gingrich by Joan Didion, pp. 7-10 - 2 Reviews
        1945~~Nineteen Forty-Five by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen
        To Renew America by Newt Gingrich
      3. [+]
        Reckless People by Elizabeth Hardwick, pp. 11-13 - 1 Review
        Independence Day by Richard Ford
      4. Two Unpublished Poems by W.B. Yeats, p. 14
      5. [+]
        In China's Gulag by Jonathan Spence, pp. 15-18 - 4 Reviews
        Red in Tooth and Claw by Pu Ning
        Bitter Winds by Harry Wu and Carolyn Wakeman
        Blood Red Sunset by Ma Bo
        Grass Soup by Zhang Xianliang
      6. [+]
        Hopper's Polluted Silence by John Updike, pp. 19-21 - 5 Reviews
        Edward Hopper and the American Imagination by Deborah Lyons, Adam D. Weinberg, and Julie Grau
        Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist by Gail Levin and Edward Hopper
        Edward Hopper's New England by Carl Little and Edward Hopper
        Hopper by Mark Strand
        Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonne by Gail Levin
      7. [+]
        Cherchez la Femme by Robert Darnton, pp. 22-23 - 1 Review
        Monsieur d'Eon is a Woman by Gary Kates
      8. [+]
        Nice Work by John Banville, pp. 24-26 - 2 Reviews
        Therapy by David Lodge
        Small World by David Lodge
      9. Why NATO Should Grow by Strobe Talbott, pp. 27-30
      10. [+]
        The Backward Look by John Bayley, pp. 31-33 - 3 Reviews
        The Life of Arseniev: Youth by Ivan Bunin
        Ivan Bunin: Russian Requiem, 1885-1920 by Thomas Gaiton Marullo and Ivan Bunin
        Ivan Bunin: From the Other Shore, 1920-1933 by Thomas Gaiton Marullo and Ivan Bunin
      11. The Confidence Men by Sarah Kerr, pp. 34-37
      12. [+]
        The Way We Live Now by Cathleen Schine, pp. 38-39 - 1 Review
        Moo by Jane Smiley
      13. [+]
        End of the Line by Gabriele Annan, pp. 40-41 - 1 Review
        The Poet Dying by Ernst Pawel
      14. [+]
        Mother of the World by Ingrid D. Rowland, pp. 42-46 - 1 Review
        Egyptomania by Jean-Marcel Humbert, Michael Pantazzi, and Christiane Ziegler, ...
      15. A Letter from Egypt by Gustave Flaubert, p. 47
      16. The Budget by Felix Rohatyn, pp. 48-49
      17. [+]
        The New Revolutionaries by Garry Wills, pp. 50-54 - 9 Reviews
        The Turner Diaries by Andrew MacDonald
        Warrior Dreams by James William Gibson
        The Ashes of Waco by Dick J. Reavis
        Guns, Crime, and Freedom by Wayne R. LaPierre
        Report from Iron Mountain by Leonard C. Lewin
        Politics of Righteousness by James A. Aho
        In the Shadow of War by Michael Sherry
        This Thing of Darkness by James A. Aho
        Why Waco? by James D. Tabor and Eugene V. Gallagher
      18. 'Sex, Lies, and Social Sciences' by Christine K. Cassel, M.D., Howard Schuman, and Richard Lewontin, ..., p. 55
      19. Letters by Peter Dale Scott, Kay Merkel Boruff, and David B. Zoellner, ..., pp. 56-60
      20. Cover Photograph by Bob Strong
    3. [+]
      September 21, 1995 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. The Choice in the Balkans by Warren Zimmermann, pp. 4-7
      2. [+]
        The Big Cake by Keith Thomas, pp. 8-11 - 1 Review
        Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
      3. Casablanca Villanelle by Patricia Storace, p. 12
      4. The End of Affluence by Jeff Madrick, pp. 13-17
      5. [+]
        Le Diable au Coeur by Norman Cohn, pp. 18-20 - 1 Review
        The Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels
      6. You're Not in Your Own House Here, My Dear Fellow by Milan Kundera, pp. 21-25
      7. [+]
        The War Over the Bomb by Ian Buruma, pp. 26-34 - 5 Reviews
        The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth by Gar Alperovitz
        Writing Ground Zero by John Whittier Treat
        Hiroshima in America by Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell
        Code-Name Downfall by Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar
        Nagasaki Journey by Yosuke Yamahata and Rupert Jenkins
      8. [+]
        The Constant Wife by Diane Johnson, pp. 35-36 - 3 Reviews
        D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage by Brenda Maddox
        A Genius for Living by Janet Byrne
        Frieda Lawrence by Rosemary Jackson and Frieda Lawrence
      9. The Mythical Life and Love of D.H. Lawrence by Sir Stephen Spender, p. 37
      10. The UN's Failure by Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Bernard Osser, and Patrick de Saint-Exupery, ..., p. 38
      11. A Letter of Resignation by Tadeusz Mazowiecki, p. 39
      12. [+]
        On the Edge of Chaos by Timothy Ferris, pp. 40-43 - 1 Review
        The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann
      13. [+]
        Twelve Angry Persons by Andrew Hacker, pp. 44-48 - 4 Reviews
        The Jury by Stephen J. Adler
        We, the Jury by Jeffrey B. Abramson
        The Private Diary of an O.J. Juror by Michael Knox and Mike Walker
        Hung Jury by Hazel Thornton
      14. [+]
        Little Guignol by James Wood, pp. 49-51 - 1 Review
        The Trial of Elizabeth Cree by Peter Ackroyd
      15. [+]
        Beethoven's Triumph by Charles Rosen, pp. 52-57 - 2 Reviews
        Listening in Paris by James H. Johnson
        Beethoven by William Kinderman
      16. [+]
        No Trumpets, No Drums by Jonathan Mirsky, pp. 58-61 - 3 Reviews
        The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
        Novel Without a Name by Duong Thu Huong
        Paradise of the Blind by Thu Huong Duong
      17. [+]
        To Keep and Bear Arms by Garry Wills, pp. 62-72 - 3 Reviews
        A Right to Bear Arms by Stephen P. Halbrook
        To Keep and Bear Arms by Joyce Lee Malcolm
        Guns, Crime, and Freedom by Wayne R. LaPierre
      18. Bradley's Escape by Murray Kempton, p. 73
      19. Should NATO Grow? by R.T. Davies, p. 74
      20. Letters by Michael Shelden, David Lodge, Lee Siegel, and Tony Judt, ..., pp. 75-80
      21. Cover Photograph: Nagasaki by Yosuke Yamahata
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1995 = 6 Issues, 102 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 5, 1995 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        Nabokov's Dark Treasures by John Banville, pp. 4-6 - 1 Review
        The Magician's Doubts by Michael Wood
      2. The Madness of General Mladic by Robert Block, pp. 7-9
      3. [+]
        Can You Trust Vasari? by Charles Hope, pp. 10-12 - 1 Review
        Giorgio Vasari: Art and History by Patricia Lee Rubin
      4. By Guess and By Gosh by John Ashbery, p. 13
      5. [+]
        An American Tragedy by Bernard Bailyn, pp. 14-16 - 1 Review
        The American Revolution in Indian Country by Colin G. Calloway
      6. [+]
        The Terror Master by Avishai Margalit, pp. 17-22 - 1 Review
        Fighting Terrorism by Benjamin Netanyahu
      7. [+]
        A Self-Made Man by Robert M. Adams, p. 23 - 1 Review
        Writing Was Everything by Alfred Kazin
      8. [+]
        Under an Evil Star by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 24-27 - 2 Reviews
        Nazi Germany: A New History by Klaus P. Fischer
        The Origins of Nazi Genocide by Henry Friedlander
      9. Adam's Rib by Nadine Gordimer, pp. 28-29
      10. [+]
        It Takes All Kinds by Alan Ryan, pp. 30-34 - 1 Review
        The Next American Nation by Michael Lind
      11. [+]
        Adrift in Iberia by David Gilmour, pp. 35-36 - 1 Review
        The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago
      12. [+]
        What Are American Interests? by Tony Judt, pp. 37-38 - 1 Review
        Temptations of a Superpower by Ronald Steel
      13. [+]
        Reductionism Redux by Steven Weinberg, pp. 39-42 - 1 Review
        Nature's Imagination by John Cornwell
      14. [+]
        Southern Comfort by David Brion Davis, pp. 43-46 - 3 Reviews
        The Southern Tradition by Eugene D. Genovese
        The Slaveholders' Dilemma by Eugene D. Genovese
        The Southern Front by Eugene D. Genovese
      15. [+]
        The Marlowe Murder Case by Michael Neill, pp. 47-50 - 2 Reviews
        The Reckoning by Charles Nicholl
        A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess
      16. [+]
        The Crusade Against Cosa Nostra by Adrian Lyttelton, pp. 51-55 - 1 Review
        Excellent Cadavers by Alexander Stille
      17. Letters by Saunders Mac Lane, Freeman Dyson, and Robert Heilbroner, ..., pp. 56-60
      18. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    2. [+]
      October 19, 1995 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        Our Dante by Bernard Knox, pp. 4-6 - 1 Review
        The Inferno of Dante by Robert Pinsky and Dante
      2. [+]
        Russian Lessons by Tatyana Tolstaya, pp. 7-9 - 1 Review
        The Russian Question by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
      3. [+]
        Demonizing the American Dilemma by George M. Fredrickson, pp. 10-16 - 1 Review
        The End of Racism by Dinesh D'Souza
      4. [+]
        The Triumph of Tiepolo by Hugh Honour, pp. 17-22 - 2 Reviews
        Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence by Svetlana Alpers and Michael Baxandall
        The Glory of Venice by Jane Martineau and Andrew Robison
      5. [+]
        Whitman's Revolution by Geoffrey O'Brien, pp. 23-27 - 6 Reviews
        Walt Whitman's America by David S. Reynolds
        Complete Poetry and Selected Prose by Walt Whitman
        Selected Letters of Walt Whitman by Edwin Haviland Miller and Walt Whitman
        Constructing the German Walt Whitman by Walter Grundzweig
        The Neglected Walt Whitman by Sam Abrams and Walt Whitman
        The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman by Robert K. Martin
      6. [+]
        Are There Limits to Liberalism? by Michael Walzer, pp. 28-31 - 1 Review
        Isaiah Berlin by John Gray
      7. [+]
        The Wonder of Mozart by Frank Kermode, pp. 32-42 - 6 Reviews
        Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon
        Mozart and Posterity by Gernot Gruber
        Mozart: Portrait of a Genius by Norbert Elias
        On Mozart by James M. Morris
        Haydn, Mozart and the Viennese School, 1740-1780 by Daniel Heartz
        Wolfgang Amade Mozart by Georg Knepler
      8. [+]
        Heartburn by Claire Messud, p. 43 - 1 Review
        The Love Letter by Cathleen Schine
      9. [+]
        The Best Years of Their Lives by Noel Annan, pp. 44-48 - 4 Reviews
        Selling War by Nicholas John Cull
        London at War by Philip Ziegler
        Rich Relations by David S. Reynolds
        For You, Lili Marlene by Robert Peters
      10. [+]
        The Time of Her Life by P.N. Furbank, pp. 49-53 - 4 Reviews
        That Mighty Sculptor, Time by Marguerite Yourcenar
        How Many Years by Marguerite Yourcenar
        A Blue Tale and Other Stories by Marguerite Yourcenar
        Marguerite Yourcenar by Josyane Savigneau
      11. [+]
        Horror of Horrors by Michael Wood, pp. 54-57 - 3 Reviews
        Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
        Dolores Claiborne (1994 Film) by Taylor Hackford
        Rose Madder by Stephen King
      12. [+]
        The Founding Realist by Gordon S. Wood, pp. 58-61 - 1 Review
        If Men Were Angels by Richard K. Matthews
      13. [+]
        Not Having It All by Peter Holland, pp. 62-65 - 1 Review
        Mrs. Jordan's Profession by Claire Tomalin
      14. [+]
        The Singapore Way by Ian Buruma, pp. 66-70 - 2 Reviews
        To Catch a Tartar by Francis T. Seow
        Dare to Change by Soon Juan Chee
      15. 'It Will Shame the Congress' by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, p. 71
      16. Letters by Aryeh Neier, Timothy Garton Ash, and Norman Davies, ..., p. 72
      17. In Defense of Algerian Journalists, pp. 73-76
      18. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    3. [+]
      November 2, 1995 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        General Right by Thomas Powers, pp. 4-8 - 1 Review
        My American Journey by Colin L. Powell and Joseph E. Persico
      2. [+]
        In Love With Hitler by Gordon A. Craig, pp. 9-11 - 1 Review
        Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny
      3. Dah by Gore Vidal, pp. 12-16
      4. [+]
        The Politics of Self-Destruction by Michael Ignatieff, pp. 17-19 - 3 Reviews
        Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia by Richard West
        Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber and Allan Little
        Genocide in Bosnia by Norman Cigar
      5. [+]
        The Sins of the Fathers by Robert Stone, pp. 20-23 - 1 Review
        All God's Children by Fox Butterfield
      6. [+]
        Dangerous Women by Millicent Bell, pp. 24-28 - 3 Reviews
        The Brontes: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker
        Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life by Lyndall Gordon
        The Letters of Charlotte Bronte by Margaret Smith and Charlotte Bronte
      7. [+]
        An Anti-Intellectual Intellectual by Theodore Draper, pp. 29-34 - 1 Review
        Neo-Conservatism by Irving Kristol
      8. [+]
        Governess on Speed by Fiona MacCarthy, pp. 35-39 - 1 Review
        Christina Rossetti: A Writer's Life by Jan Marsh
      9. [+]
        Benevolent Dinosaur by Derek Beales, pp. 40-43 - 1 Review
        Twilight of the Habsburgs by Alan Palmer
      10. [+]
        Impressionists on Stage by Robert L. Herbert, pp. 44-47 - 3 Reviews
        Impressions of France by John House, Ann Dumas, Jane Mayo Roos, and James F. McMillan, ...
        Claude Monet: 1840-1926 by Charles F. Stuckey, Claude Monet, and Sophia Shaw, ...
        Monet to Matisse by Richard Thomson
      11. [+]
        Keeping the Hard Gemlike Flame by John Gross, pp. 48-51 - 1 Review
        Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls by Denis Donoghue
      12. [+]
        Dreams of a Just World by Stanley Hoffmann, pp. 52-55 - 1 Review
        On Human Rights by Stephen Shute and Susan Hurley
      13. [+]
        Women Musicians of Venice and The Red Priest by Robert Craft, pp. 56-59 - 2 Reviews
        Women Musicians of Venice by Jane J. Baldauf-Berdes
        Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque by H.C. Robbins Landon
      14. [+]
        The Mystery of Consciousness by John R. Searle, pp. 60-65 - 6 Reviews
        The Astonishing Hypothesis by Francis Crick
        Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
        The Remembered Present by Gerald M. Edelman
        Bright Air, Brilliant Fire by Gerald M. Edelman
        Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose
        Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten by Israel Rosenfield
      15. 'Genes and Sexuality' by Ward F. Odenwald, Frank R. Aqueno, and Jonathan Ned Katz, ..., pp. 66-68
      16. Just Like Old Times by Michael Scammell, pp. 69-72
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    4. [+]
      November 16, 1995 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        Metropolitan Life by Jason Epstein, pp. 4-6 - 1 Review
        The Encyclopedia of New York City by Kenneth T. Jackson
      2. [+]
        Witness to the Fall by George F. Kennan, pp. 7-11 - 1 Review
        Autopsy on an Empire by Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
      3. [+]
        Design for Living by Witold Rybczynski, pp. 12-15 - 1 Review
        Engineers of Dreams by Henry Petroski
      4. Author, Author by Bernard Knox, pp. 16-19
      5. [+]
        Howl by Frank Kermode, pp. 20-23 - 1 Review
        Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
      6. [+]
        The Birth of a Nation by Misha Glenny, pp. 24-27 - 1 Review
        Who Are the Macedonians? by Hugh Poulton
      7. The Christmas Story by Vladimir Nabokov, pp. 28-29
      8. [+]
        Heroes and Hero Worship by Joan Acocella, pp. 30-35 - 2 Reviews
        Mosaic: Memoirs by Lincoln Kirstein
        Following Balanchine by Robert Garis
      9. [+]
        Story of X by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 36-37 - 1 Review
        In the Cut by Susanna Moore
      10. [+]
        Strange and Desperate Cures by Anthony Grafton, pp. 38-41 - 1 Review
        Gehennical Fire by William R. Newman
      11. [+]
        The Unexamined Life by Luc Sante, pp. 42-47 - 4 Reviews
        Altars by Robert Mapplethorpe
        Mapplethorpe: A Biography by Patricia Morrisroe
        Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera by Jack Fritscher
        Playing with the Edge by Arthur C. Danto
      12. [+]
        Odd Man In by Jeremy Bernstein, pp. 48-51 - 1 Review
        Force of Nature by Thomas Hager
      13. [+]
        Feet on the Ground by John Bayley, pp. 52-53 - 1 Review
        Louis MacNeice: A Biography by Jon Stallworthy
      14. [+]
        The Mystery of Consciousness by John R. Searle, pp. 54-60 - 6 Reviews
        The Astonishing Hypothesis by Francis Crick
        Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
        The Remembered Present by Gerald M. Edelman
        Bright Air, Brilliant Fire by Gerald M. Edelman
        Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose
        Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten by Israel Rosenfield
      15. 'To Keep and Bear Arms' by Sanford Levinson, David C. Williams, and Glenn Harlan Reynolds, ..., pp. 61-63
      16. Letters by William Kinderman, Alfred Brendel, and Charles Rosen, ..., pp. 64-68
      17. Cover Drawing by David Levine
    5. [+]
      November 30, 1995 Issue = 15 Articles
      1. [+]
        Culture War by Clifford Geertz, pp. 4-6 - 2 Reviews
        The Apotheosis of Captain Cook by Gananath Obeyesekere
        How "Natives" Think by Marshall Sahlins
      2. [+]
        A God's Life by John Barton, pp. 7-9 - 1 Review
        God: A Biography by Jack Miles
      3. [+]
        Italy's Dirty Linen by Denis Mack Smith, pp. 10-15 - 2 Reviews
        Getting the Boot by Matt Frei
        The Crisis of the Italian State by Patrick McCarthy
      4. Archer's Way by John Updike, pp. 16-18
      5. [+]
        Victoria's Secret by Richard Jenkyns, pp. 19-21 - 2 Reviews
        When Passion Reigned by Patricia Anderson
        The Naked Heart by Peter Gay
      6. [+]
        The Myth of Barry Goldwater by Michael Lind, pp. 22-27 - 3 Reviews
        Barry Goldwater by Robert Alan Goldberg
        Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution by Lee Edwards
        Turning Right in the Sixties by Mary C. Brennan
      7. [+]
        Man's Next-Best Friend by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, pp. 28-30 - 2 Reviews
        The Company of Wolves by Peter Steinhart
        The Wolf Almanac by Robert H. Busch
      8. [+]
        The Perfectionist by Richard Dorment, pp. 31-34 - 4 Reviews
        William Morris by Fiona MacCarthy
        The Collected Letters of William Morris, Vol. I: 1848-1880 by Norman Kelvin and William Morris
        The Collected Letters of William Morris, Vol. II, Part A: 1881-1884 by Norman Kelvin and William Morris
        The Collected Letters of William Morris, Vol. II, Part B: 1885-1888 by Norman Kelvin and William Morris
      9. A Hero of Our Time by William Shawcross, pp. 35-39
      10. [+]
        Extravaganza in Progress by John Weightman, pp. 40-42 - 1 Review
        The Saragossa Manuscript by Jan Potocki and Roger Caillois
      11. Milking an Elk by Robert Mazzocco, pp. 43-45
      12. [+]
        Genes, Memes, & Minds by John Maynard Smith, pp. 46-48 - 1 Review
        Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett
      13. Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, pp. 49-55
      14. On the Million Man March by Murray Kempton, p. 56
      15. 'The New War Over Hiroshima' by Gar Alperovitz, Robert Jay Lifton, and Greg Mitchell, ..., pp. 56-60
    6. [+]
      December 21, 1995 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Beginning of the End by Ian Buruma, pp. 4-9 - 2 Reviews
        Moving the Mountain (1995 Film) by Michael Apted
        Neither Gods Nor Emperors by Craig Calhoun
      2. [+]
        Gotterdammerung by James M. McPherson, pp. 10-15 - 4 Reviews
        The Hard Hand of War by Mark Grimsley
        Citizen Sherman by Michael Fellman
        Robert E. Lee: A Biography by Emory M. Thomas
        Davis and Lee at War by Steven E. Woodworth
      3. All Our Yesterdays by Jorge Luis Borges, p. 16
      4. [+]
        Sleepless Nights by Michael Wood, pp. 17-18 - 1 Review
        The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
      5. Saudades do Brasil by Claude Levi-Strauss, pp. 19-26
      6. Bosnia in Our Future by Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 27-31
      7. [+]
        The Simple Art of Murder by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 32-41 - 2 Reviews
        Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels by Frank MacShane and Raymond Chandler
        Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings by Frank MacShane and Raymond Chandler
      8. Israel's Demons by Amos Elon, pp. 42-47
      9. [+]
        Opening the Box of Delights by Alison Lurie, pp. 48-53 - 5 Reviews
        A Book of Discoveries by John Masefield
        Martin Hyde: The Duke's Messenger by John Masefield
        Jim Davis by John Masefield
        The Midnight Folk by John Masefield
        The Box of Delights by John Masefield
      10. [+]
        The Pioneer Defended by M.F. Perutz, pp. 54-58 - 1 Review
        The Private Science of Louis Pasteur by Gerald L. Geison
      11. [+]
        An Honest Eye by John Updike, pp. 59-63 - 2 Reviews
        John Singleton Copley in America by Carrie Rebora
        John Singleton Copley in England by Emily Ballew Neff
      12. [+]
        Call Me Madame by P.N. Furbank, pp. 64-67 - 1 Review
        Delphine by Germaine de Stael
      13. [+]
        Separated at Birth by Istvan Deak, pp. 68-72 - 1 Review
        Budapest and New York by Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske
      14. Slouching Toward Washington by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 73-81
      15. The Last Gentleman by Murray Kempton, p. 82
      16. 'The Mystery of Consciousness' by Daniel C. Dennett and John Searle, pp. 83-84
      17. Letters by David Binder and Robert Block, pp. 85-88
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
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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
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Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles