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December 18, 1986 Issue - 16 Articles- Afghanistan's Other War
Jeri Laber
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City Lights (Review) Mark Girouard
, pp. 8-9 The City as a Work of Art, by Donald J. Olsen
- The City as a Work of Art by Donald J. Olsen
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On the Edge of Revelation (Review) J.M. Coetzee
, pp. 10-12 Five Women, by Robert Musil
- Five Women by Robert Musil
- Japan
James Merrill
, pp. 13-18 Prose of Departure
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The Genius of George Herriman (Review) Adam Gopnik
, pp. 19-28 Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman, by Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, and...
- Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman by Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, and Georgia Riley de Havenon, ...
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The Wild Blue Yonder (3 Reviews) Robert Towers
, pp. 29-33 Diary of a Yuppie, by Louis Auchincloss
- Diary of a Yuppie by Louis Auchincloss
- Pubis Angelical by Manuel Puig
- Paper Doll by Jim Shepard
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The Americans in Space (3 Reviews) James Fallows
, pp. 34-48 The Heavens and the Earth, by Walter A. McDougall
- The Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall
- Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
- The Aerospace Plane by Stephen W. Korthals-Altes
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Sex in the Head (Review) Martha Nussbaum
, pp. 49-52 Sexual Desire, by Roger Scruton
- Sexual Desire by Roger Scruton
- Out of Phase Again
Albert O. Hirschman
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Gulp! (2 Reviews) Thomas R. Edwards
, pp. 58-60 It, by Stephen King
- It by Stephen King
- Whirlwind by James Clavell
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A Long Way from Poland (Review) Selden Rodman
, pp. 61-63 Poland's Caribbean Tragedy, by Jan Pachonski and Reuel K. Wilson
- Poland's Caribbean Tragedy by Jan Pachonski and Reuel K. Wilson
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Are Tyrants Necessary? (Review) W.G. Runciman
, pp. 64-65 At the Dawn of Tyranny, by Eli Sagan
- At the Dawn of Tyranny by Eli Sagan
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Catching Up with the Avant-garde (8 Reviews) Roger Shattuck
, pp. 66-74 Bohemian Paris, by Jerrold Seigel
- Bohemian Paris by Jerrold Seigel
- Pleasures of the Belle Epoque by Charles Rearick
- France: Fin de Siecle by Eugen Weber
- Theory of the Avant-Garde by Peter Burger
- Poets, Prophets, and Revolutionaries by Charles Russell
- The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern
- The Matrix of Modernism by Sanford Schwartz
- Mapping Literary Modernism by Ricardo J. Quinones
- On Fame and the Writer
Stephen Spender
, p. 75 - Letters
Sherman E. Lee, Josua Bruyn, Joseph Alsop, and Eleanor Cook, ...
, pp. 76-80 - Cover Illustration
George Herriman