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June 6, 1996 Issue - 16 Articles- On Tap
Joan Acocella
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Family Values (4 Reviews) Elizabeth Hardwick
, pp. 7-10 In Contempt, by Christopher Darden and Jess Walter
- In Contempt by Christopher Darden and Jess Walter
- Reasonable Doubts by Alan M. Dershowitz
- The Search for Justice by Robert L. Shapiro and Larkin Warren
- I Want to Tell You by O.J. Simpson
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What Happened to the Revolution? (5 Reviews) Garry Wills
, pp. 11-15 Showdown, by Elizabeth Drew
- Showdown by Elizabeth Drew
- Storming the Gates by Dan Balz and Ronald Brownstein
- "Tell Newt to Shut up" by David Maraniss and Michael Weisskopf
- Dirty Little Secrets by Larry J. Sabato and Glenn R. Simpson
- The System by Haynes Johnson and David Broder
- Offering
Jonathan Aaron
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En Route to the Catastrophe (Review) J.M. Coetzee
, pp. 17-19 Babel Tower, by A.S. Byatt
- Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt
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The Abominable Emperor (4 Reviews) Noel Annan
, pp. 20-27 An Uncommon Woman, by Hannah Pakula
- An Uncommon Woman by Hannah Pakula
- Blood and Iron by Otto Friedrich
- The Kaiser and His Court by John C.G. Rohl
- Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944 by Peter Hoffmann
- The Pleasures of Abstinence
Roger Shattuck
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Japan (3 Reviews) Ian Buruma
, pp. 31-33 In the Spirit World
- The Idea of Japan by Ian Littlewood
- A Zen Romance by Deborah Boliver Boehm
- A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine by John K. Nelson
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Eliot and the Jews (Review) Louis Menand
, pp. 34-41 T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form, by Anthony Julius
- T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form by Anthony Julius
- Italy
Alexander Stille
, pp. 42-46 The Convulsions of Normalcy
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Not So Poor Richard (2 Reviews) Gordon S. Wood
, pp. 47-51 Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies, by Robert Middlekauff
- Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies by Robert Middlekauff
- The Devious Dr. Franklin, Colonial Agent by David T. Morgan
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How to Read a Book (2 Reviews) Robert Darnton
, pp. 52-57 Forms and Meanings, by Roger Chartier
- Forms and Meanings by Roger Chartier
- Shakespeare, the King's Playwright by Alvin Kernan
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The Poisoned Country (2 Reviews) Philip Gourevitch
, pp. 58-63 Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide, by Rene Lemarchand
- Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide by Rene Lemarchand
- Purity and Exile by Liisa H. Malkki
- The CIA and Bosnia
John Deutch, Charles Lane, and Thom Shanker
, p. 64 An Exchange
- Letters
Claire DeSilver, Gore Vidal, Janadas Devan, and Ian Buruma, ...
, pp. 65-68 - Cover Drawing
David Levine