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December 7, 1998 Issue - 30 Articles- The Mail, pp. 20-21
- Goings On About Town, pp. 22-60
- The Talk of the Town, pp. 61-63
- "The Grimm Truth"
Geri Peterson
, pp. 64-71 - Onward and Upward With the Arts
Mark Levine
, pp. 72-81 The Juggler
- Personal History
John Updike
, pp. 82-99 Back from China
- Shouts & Murmurs
Steve Martin
, pp. 100-103 Does God Exist?
- The Culture Industry
Kurt Andersen
, pp. 104-105 The Tom Hanks Phenomenon
- "A Hundred Bolts of Satin"
Kay Ryan
, pp. 106-129 - Profile: Booth Country
David Owen
, pp. 130-139 - Strip 1998: A Look Back
Roz Chast
, pp. 140-143 - From the Archives
Hendrik Hertzberg
, pp. 144-149 Sex to Sexty
- Album
Robert Mankoff
, pp. 150-153 The Addams Trove
- Strip
Jack Ziegler
, pp. 154-155 Autobio
- Cartoons, pp. 156-161
The Funnies
- Album
Lee Lorenz
, pp. 162-163 Cartooning for Dummies
- Fiction: "Over There"
Julie Hecht
, pp. 164-169 - "Failure"
Kay Ryan
, pp. 170-179 The Critics
- A Critic at Large
David Denby
, pp. 180-189 -
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Books: A Leading Man (Review) Peter Ackroyd
, pp. 190-193 A Traitor's Kiss, by Fintan O'Toole
- A Traitor's Kiss by Fintan O'Toole
- Sketchbook
William Steig
, pp. 194-196 -
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Books: Absence of Malice (Review) Daphne Merkin
, pp. 197-199 Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan
- Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
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Briefly Noted (9 Reviews) , pp. 200-201 Tomato Red, by Daniel Woodrell
- Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell
- The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel
- Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
- Dragonfly by Bryan Burrough
- Tibor Kalman, Perverse Optimist by Peter Hall and Michael Bierut
- The Birth of Empire by Evan Cornog
- W. Eugene Smith: Photographs 1934-1975 by Gilles Mora and John T. Hill
- The Folding Cliffs by W.S. Merwin
- Halfway Down the Hall by Rachel Hadas
- Dance
Joan Acocella
, pp. 202-206 - The Art World
Peter Schjeldahl
, pp. 207-210 - The Theatre
Nancy Franklin
, pp. 211-213 -
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The Current Cinema (Review) Anthony Lane
, pp. 214-216 Renaissance Teen
- Rushmore (1998 Film) by Wes Anderson
- Crossword, p. 217
- The Back Page
Bruce McCall
, pp. 218-238 The World's Shortest-Lived Comic Strips
- Cover: Ships of Quips
Charles Barsotti
