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November 20, 1997 Issue - 18 Articles-
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Love Story (Review) Tatyana Tolstaya
, pp. 4-5 Dreams of My Russian Summers, by Andrei Makine
- Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine
- 'Reading Li Po'
Breyten Breytenbach
, pp. 6-7 A poem translated by Rita Dove
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Renoir the Radical (Review) Robert L. Herbert
, pp. 8-10 Renoir's Portraits, by Colin B. Bailey
- Renoir's Portraits by Colin B. Bailey
- Resume
Luc Sante
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The Case of Cases (2 Reviews) Theodore Draper
, pp. 13-17 Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, by Sam Tanenhaus
- Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus
- Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein
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The Long Voyage Home (Review) Alfred Kazin
, pp. 18-19 Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
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Man of the People? (Review) Gordon A. Craig
, pp. 20-23 The Hitler of History, by John Lukacs
- The Hitler of History by John Lukacs
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A Life Elsewhere (Review) John Banville
, pp. 24-26 Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, by J.M. Coetzee
- Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee
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Looking Good (4 Reviews) Michael Wood
, pp. 27-31 Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood, by Todd McCarthy
- Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood by Todd McCarthy
- Who the Devil Made It by Peter Bogdanovich
- The Big Sleep by David Thomson
- Howard Hawks American Artist by Jim Hillier and Peter Wollen
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Speedy Fred's Revolution (Review) Sean Wilentz
, pp. 32-37 The One Best Way, by Robert Kanigel
- The One Best Way by Robert Kanigel
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Points of Order (Review) Richard Jenkyns
, pp. 38-40 The Platypus and the Mermaid, by Harriet Ritvo
- The Platypus and the Mermaid by Harriet Ritvo
- Death for Sale
Amos Elon
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Lone Wolf (Review) D.J. Enright
, pp. 42-43 The Mad Dog, by Heinrich Boll
- The Mad Dog by Heinrich Boll
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As Many Homers As You Please (2 Reviews) Hayden Pelliccia
, pp. 44-48 Poetry as Performance, by Gregory Nagy
- Poetry as Performance by Gregory Nagy
- Homeric Questions by Gregory Nagy
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Blue Fingernails (Review) Noel Annan
, pp. 49-50 Violet, by Jessica Douglas-Home
- Violet by Jessica Douglas-Home
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Doing the Continental (Review) Gordon S. Wood
, pp. 51-55 The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850, by Lester D. Langley
- The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 by Lester D. Langley
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The US and the Yugoslav Catastrophe (9 Reviews) Mark Danner
, pp. 56-63 Origins of a Catastrophe, by Warren Zimmermann
- Origins of a Catastrophe by Warren Zimmermann
- Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime by Jan Willem Honig and Norbert Both
- Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica by David Rohde
- The Reluctant Superpower by Wayne Bert
- The World and Yugoslavia's Wars by Richard H. Ullman
- Triumph of the Lack of Will by James Gow
- The Serbs by Tim Judah
- Balkan Tragedy by Susan L. Woodward
- American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War by Robert L. Hutchings
- 'America's Caste System'
Jim Sleeper, Stephan Thernstrom, and Abigail Thernstrom, ...
, pp. 64-68 Two Exchanges