The Atlantic Monthly 1996 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
745(Boylston Street)(composer-contributor David Schiff)(Editorial)(Interview) | News, opinion and commentary | |
Abloom with art: works by renowned modern sculptors can be viewed outdoors in the New York area - and across America. | News, opinion and commentary | Andre Emmerich |
Accompanying Franz. (mock book tour with piano virtuoso Franz Liszt) | News, opinion and commentary | Ian Frazier |
Adventures in liposuction: a bitter controversy over a surgical technique reveals much about consmetic surgery, a strikingly unregulated branch of medicine. | News, opinion and commentary | Judith Gingold |
A man on horseback. (character of George Washington) | News, opinion and commentary | Richard Brookhiser |
America's search for public philosophy: despite their disagreements, liberals and conservative share an impoversihed vision of citizenship, leaving them unable to address the anxiety and frustration abroad in the land.(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Michael J. Sandel |
A movable feast. (traveling by barge through the French countryside) | News, opinion and commentary | Barbara Wallraff |
An American requiem. (relationship between an Air Force General and his priest son is destroyed by the Vietnam War) | News, opinion and commentary | James Carroll |
An encore for chaos? (ethnic battles in Kenya) | News, opinion and commentary | Bill Berkeley |
A new iron curtain. (implications of North Atlantic Treaty Organization eastward expansion for Russia) | News, opinion and commentary | Anatol Lieven |
A race too far?(William Weld and John Kerry campaign for Massachusetts Senate seat) | News, opinion and commentary | Jack Beatty |
Barking up the right tree. (coon hunting) | News, opinion and commentary | Burkhard Bilger |
Big, brilliant American sound: Garrick Ohlsson comes back to Chopin and rethinks his career as a pianist. (classical music) | News, opinion and commentary | Michael Ullman |
Blowback. (CIA inadvertently helped create militant Islamist terrorist groups) | News, opinion and commentary | Mary Anne Weaver |
Buffed and polished: health spas are more numerous and diverse than ever before. | News, opinion and commentary | Deborah Fallows |
Can we still afford to be a nation of immigrants?: Comparing yesterday's immigration with today's, a historian is struck by the unprecedented nature of our present situation.(The Price of Immigration)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | David M. Kennedy |
Child labor in Pakistan. | News, opinion and commentary | Jonathan Silvers |
Clinton scandals, Inc. (books that purport to chronicle the life of Bill Clinton) | News, opinion and commentary | Martin Walker |
Express yourself: it's later than you think. If you're confused about postmodernism, that may mean you understand it. (some basic terms) | News, opinion and commentary | Brad Holland |
Finished symphonies. (a revived appreciation for the works of classical composer Muzio Clementi) | News, opinion and commentary | William H. Youngren |
For everyman, by Everyman: in creating himself according to the nation's enthusiasm for his songs, Irving Berlin helped create a national identity. | News, opinion and commentary | David Schiff |
Gap politics. (more women have moved to the Democratic Party and more men have gone over to the Republicans) | News, opinion and commentary | Steven Stark |
Germania irredenta. (Germans are trying to legally reclaim lands lost in Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland after World War II) | News, opinion and commentary | Hans Konig |
Good news and bad news about breast cancer.(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | David Plotkin |
High resolution, unresolved: private companies will soon launch satellites powerful enough to spot environmental hazards - or a car in your driveway. | News, opinion and commentary | Mary Graham |
Home from nowhere. (zoning laws' affects on quality of life) | News, opinion and commentary | James Howard Kunstler |
In a Chinese orphanage. (public-policy concerns behind the plight of Chinese orphanages) | News, opinion and commentary | Anne F. Thurston |
India's Bandit Queen: a saga of revenge - and the making of a legend of "the real India." (rebel leader Phoolan Devi) | News, opinion and commentary | Mary Anne Weaver |
In full bloom: strolling through an array of England's private gardens. | News, opinion and commentary | Hatsy Shields |
Innocents abroad: making Britain fun for a child can be fun for a parent, too. (traveling with children) | News, opinion and commentary | David Owen |
In the land of conservative women. (Republican Party) | News, opinion and commentary | Elinor Burkett |
In tune with Ireland. (Wexford, Ireland's annual opera festival) | News, opinion and commentary | Geoffrey Wheatcroft |
"It's Lew, babe, just Lew." (wife takes charge of her husband's career) | News, opinion and commentary | Lynn Caraganis |
Living room galleries. (an alternate to showing in art galleries in New York, NY) | News, opinion and commentary | Carol Kino |
Log me a river: as old-growth longleaf pine becomes scarce, thousands of valuable logs are being raised from riverbeds where they have lain for close to a century. | News, opinion and commentary | Heather Millar |
Magic time; observations of a cancer casualty. | News, opinion and commentary | Michael Davitt Bell |
Mideast oil forever? (funding for alternative-energy programs in the US may be eliminated because of budget cuts)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Joseph J. Romm, Charles B. Curtis |
Mississippi Monte Carlo. (gambling industry in Tunica County) | News, opinion and commentary | Benjamin Schwarz, Christina Schwarz |
My grandfather's last tale. (composer Ernst Toch) | News, opinion and commentary | Lawrence Wechsler |
My sex mentors: Barbara Stanwyck, meet Janet Reno. (film actress and the Attorney General) | News, opinion and commentary | Lynn Caraganis |
No phone, no pool, no pets: living in a van. | News, opinion and commentary | Ian Frazier |
On France's blessed south coast. (the Cote d'Azur) | News, opinion and commentary | Hans Koning |
Otherworldly Madagascar. | News, opinion and commentary | Peter Tyson |
Remembering Ross Thomas: he made crime fiction a genre of moral consolation in twenty-five award-winning books. | News, opinion and commentary | Hiss Tony |
Right-wing populist. (presidential candidate Pat Buchanan) | News, opinion and commentary | Steven Stark |
Say something: they're only children. (adult's social responsibility toward children) | News, opinion and commentary | Lucie Prinz |
Second thoughts on the Second Amendment.(gun control) | News, opinion and commentary | Wendy Kaminer |
Someplace like home. (house depicted in painting by Edward Hopper became a model for homes that appeared in various movies) | News, opinion and commentary | Paul Bochner |
Sounds as good as it looks. (new concert hall in Tanglewood, MA) | News, opinion and commentary | Witold Rybczynski |
Stuck with strangers. (helpful winter drivers in Vermont) | News, opinion and commentary | Castle Freeman Jr. |
The economic consequences of Mr. Clinton. (Pres. Bill Clinton's thrust to balance the budget at all costs is compared to the unfortunate economic policies of Winston Churchill)(Recipe for a Depression)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Robert A. Levine |
The empty symbolism of American politics. | News, opinion and commentary | Robert A. Levine |
The forces making for an economic collapse: why a depression could happen.(Recipe for a Depression)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Thomas I. Palley |
The Great Society in camouflage. (social conditions in the military) | News, opinion and commentary | Thomas E. Ricks |
The idea of disorder at Key West. (the depiction of South Florida in popular fiction) | News, opinion and commentary | Phyllis Rose |
The insufficiency of honesty. (honesty versus integrity) | News, opinion and commentary | Stephen L. Carter |
The last roundup.(country music star Merle Haggard) | News, opinion and commentary | Tony Scherman |
The latest fashion in irrationality. (mass-appeal books on spirituality) | News, opinion and commentary | Wendy Kaminer |
The new economics of immigration: affluent Americans gain; poor Americans lose.(The Price of Immigration)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | George J. Borjas |
The nitrous oxide philosopher. (Philosopher William James and his experiments with drugs) | News, opinion and commentary | Dmitri Tymoczko |
The old made new. (cultural rebirth of East Germany) | News, opinion and commentary | R.W.W. Apple Jr. |
The paradoxical case of Tony Blair. (Britain's Labor Party leader) | News, opinion and commentary | Geoffrey Wheatcroft |
The precipitous world of Dan Osman. (rock climber and free faller) | News, opinion and commentary | Andrew Todhunter |
The protean president. (Bill Clinton's partisan makeover) | News, opinion and commentary | Thomas Byrne Edsall |
The rancher subsidy. (how American ranchers survive) | News, opinion and commentary | Todd Oppenheimer |
The search for a no-frills Jesus; Q. (Greek text of the sayings of Jesus) | News, opinion and commentary | Charlotte Allen |
The sub-seabed solution. (radioactive waste disposal) | News, opinion and commentary | Steven Nadis |
The uncertain leviathan: spectators, pulse-takers, anger, and frustration - a look into the void of American politics. | News, opinion and commentary | Jonathan Schell |
The year of talking radically. (parallels between the state of the US economy in the 1890s and 1990s) | News, opinion and commentary | Jack Beatty |
Thomas Jefferson: radical and racist. (argument against former president's rightful place in history)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Conor Cruise O'Brien |
Two kinds of paradise. (Caribbean island of Nevis) | News, opinion and commentary | Barbara Wallraff |
Vessel of last resort. (trip along Africa's Congo River) | News, opinion and commentary | Jeffrey Taylor |
Watering to endanger. (the invasive quality of the Singapore police) | News, opinion and commentary | Steven Wrage |
Welcome to our tomb: visitors to Ulysses S. Grant's final resting place have an opportunity to preserve their reactions for posterity. (guest book at New York, NY monument)(Column) | News, opinion and commentary | Richard Rubin |
Welcome to the Next Church.(megachurch trend)(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Charles Trueheart |
Why America thinks it has to run the world. (US efforts to exert global economic and political power through its military presence) | News, opinion and commentary | Benjamin Schwarz |
Will America grow up before it grows old?(Cover Story) | News, opinion and commentary | Peter G. Peterson |
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