April 8, 1996 Issue, THE NEW YORKER

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- Comment: Domestic Tranquillity
  Jeffrey Frank
  , pp. 5-7
  Reasons to celebrate a suddenly dull election
- In the Mail, pp. 8-11
- Goings On About Town, pp. 12-30
- The Talk of the Town
  Anthony Lane
  , pp. 31-46
  Oscar stars before and after; awards not presented; etc.
- Our Local Correspondents: The Life Preserver
  James Traub
  , pp. 47-60
  For those who want to keep New Yorkers off death row, the new capital defender knows ho...
- Dept. of Disputation: Mad Cows and Englishmen
  Simon Schama
  , pp. 61-62
  William Hogarth and the meaning of British beef
- Annals of Religion: Blood and Tears
  Marina Warner
  , pp. 63-64
  The Catholic Church has a new problem: Italy's weeping Madonna and other millennial mir...
- "Sometimes, at Night"
  Lucy Cores
  , pp. 65-69
- Profile: King of Cats
  Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  , pp. 70-73
  What has the critic and novelist Albert Murray inspired in generations of black intelle...
- "In Late February"
  Eamon Grennan
  , pp. 74-76
- Artist at Large: Nights at the Circus
  James McMullan
  , pp. 77-81
- Personal History: How I Became a Single Woman
  Alison Rose
  , pp. 82-87
  Tales of a romantic in the city
- "What Is a Garden"
  W.S. Merwin
  , pp. 88-91
- Fiction: "Mother with Child"
  Jonathan Wilson
  , pp. 92-95
  A Dead Sea outing
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  Misfortune Tellers (3 Reviews)
  Philip Gourevitch
  , pp. 96-99
  War Before Civilization, by Lawrence H. Keeley
  1. War Before Civilization by Lawrence H. Keeley
  2. Jihad vs. McWorld by Benjamin Barber
  3. The Ends of the Earth by Robert D. Kaplan
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  Comic and Elegiac (2 Reviews)
  Helen Vendler
  , pp. 100-101
  Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow, by August Kleinzahler
  1. Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow by August Kleinzahler
  2. Atlantis by Mark Doty
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  Briefly Noted (4 Reviews) , p. 102
  Journey to the Land of the Flies and Other Travels, by Aldo Buzzi
  1. Journey to the Land of the Flies and Other Travels by Aldo Buzzi
  2. No Intermissions by Carol Easton
  3. Germany Unified and Europe Transformed by Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice
  4. Battle's End by Caroline Alexander
- The Theatre
  Nancy Franklin
  , pp. 103-105
  "The Night of the Iguana"
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  The Current Cinema (Review)
  Anthony Lane
  , pp. 106-107
  The Bad Soldier
  1. Sgt. Bilko (1996 Film) by Jonathan Lynn
- Musical Events
  Paul Griffiths
  , pp. 108-109
  Dawn Upshaw's Lenten recitals
- Shouts & Murmurs
  Bruce McCall
  , pp. 110-112
  Flat Tax Return
- Cover: Parade Best
  Maira Kalman