| The New York Times Magazine 1996 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
|---|
| 100 years of pictures: who's who. (brief profiles of 55 photographers who contributed to the New York Time Magazine over the years)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years of Pictures: 1896-1996)(Directory) | | |
| 1940's. (a sampling of articles appearing in the New York Times Magazine)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years) | | Thomas Mann, Anne O'Hare McCormick, George Bernard Shaw, Harold L. Ickes, C. L. Sulzberger, Drew Middleton, Gertrude Stein, Lucy S. Dawidowicz, Harold Denny, Robert Trumbull, Grandma Moses, Simone De Beauvoir, Jack Gould, James Thurber |
| 1950's. (A sampling of articles adapted from The New York Times Magazine)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years) | | Gay Talese, Budd Schulberg, George F. Kennan, Richard H. Rovere, Frank Lloyd Wright, Clellon Holmes, John Ladner, Delmore Schwartz, John F. Kennedy, Herbert L. Matthews, Norman Thomas, A.M. Rosenthal |
| 1960's. (a sampling of articles adapted from The New York Times Magazine)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years) | | Max Frankel, Richard Reeves, Tom Wicker, Irving Kristol, Victor S. Navasky, Arthur Koestler, W.H. Auden, Nora Ephon, Joanne Stang, Clement Greenberg, David Ben-Gurion, Michael Lydon, Paul Goodman |
| 1970's. (a sampling of articles adapted from The New York TImes Magazine)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years) | | Sara Davidson, Joyce Maynard, Anne Taylor Fleming, Norman Mailer, John Hersey, Robert Lipsyte, Sana Hasan, J. Anthony Lukas, Agnes de Mille, Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, Merle Miller, Oriana Fallaci, Amos Elon, I.F. Stone, Joseph Brodsky |
| 1980's. (sampling from articles adapted from The New York Times Magazine)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years) | | Thomas L. Friedman, Cathleen McGuigan, Nicholas Gage, Gerald Marzorati, James Atlas, Joyce Carol Oates, Nan Robertson, Ken Auletta, Maureen Dowd, Wei Jingsheng, E.J. Dionne Jr., William E. Geist, John Kifner, Ted Morgan, Alfred Kazin, V.S. Pritchett |
| 1990's. (articles selected from The New York Times Magazine)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years) | | James Gleick, Philip Weiss, Roger Cohen, Ron Rosenbaum, Howell Raines, Jeffrey Schmalz, Susan Ferraro, Darcy Frey |
| 5000 Sundays. (Letter from the Editor)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years)(Editorial)(Illustration) | | Jack Rosenthal |
| A boxer in a hurry. (28-year-old Christy Martin, winner of every boxing match for seven years is World Boxing Council's lightweight champion for women) | | Evelyn Nieves |
| A brother's murder. (About Men: adapted from a column written March 30, 1986)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years)(Column) | | Brent Staples |
| A celebration of life: Italian food, wine, and spirits.(Special Advertising Supplement) | | Pat Brown |
| A dead language, Yiddish lives: and so does the fight over why. | | Jonathan Rosen |
| A dog's life. (effect of pet dog on divorced couple's life)(Column) | | Susan Dundon |
| Adventures of a Republican revolutionary: Mark Neumann is a Gingrich freshman unwilling to compromise, even to get funds for his district. (Wisconsin congressman up for re-election to the House of Representatives)(Cover Story) | | Jeffrey Goldberg |
| A friend for all seasons: they kissed once, married other people and remain close and loving.(Hers)(Column) | | Karen Stabiner |
| Against the tide: in defense of surfing as a way of life.(adapted from 'Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast') | | Daniel Duane |
| A good news/bad news AIDS joke: finally there are drugs that allow people to live longer, but here's the punch line: few can afford them. (no support system from medical or pharmaceutical industries to get drugs to them) | | Larry Kramer |
| A handmade tale: Nick Park's little Brits are staging an invasion of their own. (Wallace and Gromit, two clay characters in stop-frame video) | | Alan Burdick |
| Alaska: the chilly charms of Point Barrow. (includes a listing of hotel services)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Aaron Elkins |
| A late lunch: a father and son try to figure out women and themselves.(About Men)(Column) | | Andre Aciman |
| A letter to my mother, Carolina Oates, on her 78th birthday. (excerpted from 'I've Always Meant to Tell You: Letters to Our Mothers')(True Confessions: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Joyce Carol Oates |
| All Shakespeare, all the time. (so popular are Shakespearean plays that 24-hours a day somewhere in the US he is making an impact) | | Barry Singer |
| Amelia Earhart: the lady vanishes.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Camille Paglia |
| America remains No. 1: no other country will have the power to play the role of 'benevolent hegemon.' (Getting Ahead)(The Next 100 Years) | | Ronald Steel |
| Amigo Cantisano's organic dream: an olive-oil farmer and whole-foods proselytizer is revolutionizing the way people eat, from the ground up. (includes a related article on the black truffle)(How We Eat: An America Divided)(Cover Story) | | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Peter Mayle |
| Amy Fisher's time. (young woman serving jail time for attempted murder of wife of her her lover Joey Buttafuoco) | | Betsy Israel |
| An ethnic trump: they always said they didn't want their young son to see himself as more Chinese than Irish. But is that possible?(Lives)(Column) | | Lillian Jen |
| A New Year's resolution: how to love a night usually approached with dread.(Lives)(Column) | | Lisa Grunwald |
| An eye for the id. (theatrical director Scott Elliott) | | Peter Marks |
| Anna Pavlova: the swan.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Allegra Kent |
| A novel experience.(1996 Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Mystery Writers of America, Advertising Supplement) | | Donald E. Westlake |
| A peace plan for the cigarette wars. (the fight between the pro- and the anti-tobacco factions)(Cover Story) | | Richard Kluger |
| A poem, 40 years long: a celebrated beatnik, mountaineer, environmental crusader, essayist and poet, Gary Snyder has lived a life worthy of the epic he has finally finished. | | Daniel Duane |
| A poetry that matters: Wislawa Szymborska. (winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature; includes five poems by Szymborska) | | Edward Hirsch |
| Arafat's heirs.(young Palestinian leaders) | | Serge Schmemann |
| A rock in the dark. (perceptions of violence)(Column) | | Sallie Tisdale |
| A rose is not a rose: David Austin crossed a Gallica with a Floribunda and got a chart-busting 'English rose', a flower with new-rose stamina and a nostalgic, snooty old-rose look. | | Arthur Lubow |
| A spa for all seasons. (Baden Baden, Germany: includes a listing of restaurants)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | John Lukacs |
| Atlanta is burning: the flame of civic ambition burns brightly in this city of boosters and big business. (flight to the suburbs may make the city a hollow cultureless business center) | | Paul Goldberger |
| Audrey Hepburn: the thoroughbred.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Diane Johnson |
| A virtual life: when laughter becomes intolerable and conversation overwhelming, she runs to her apartment and boots up.(Lives)(Column) | | Maia Szakavitz |
| A woman behind bars is not a dangerous man. | | Adrian Nicole LeBlanc |
| Back in prints. (hand-painted wallpaper is again coming into favor; includes a list of wallpaper sources)(Home Design Supplement) | | Dulcia Lelmbach |
| Barbers of civility. (modern barbershops; includes a directory of barbers, and sources for selected men's cosmetics)(Men's Fashion of the Times: Supplement) | | Donald Charles Richardson |
| Bar, none: with many neighborhood watering holes shutting down, where do you find people who actually live on the block?(Lives)(Column) | | Madison Smart Bell |
| Baseball's glory days are ... now: the 1996 season is the most spectacular in the game's history for the simple reason: the players hit, field, run and pitch better than ever. (players including Mark McGwire and Roberto Alomar are discussed) | | Allen Barra |
| Beauty and the Brits. (Prince Charles' preference for Camilla Parker Bowles has little to do with her beauty or lack of it)(Style)(Column) | | Brenda Maddox |
| Beauty is back: a trampled esthetic blooms again. (Church and State)(The Next 100 Years) | | Peter Schjeldahl |
| Bedtime for Bozo: these days, being a clown isn't all fun and games.(Lives)(Column) | | Bruce Feiler |
| Beirut revisited: a traveler's tale.(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | John Ash |
| Bellevue's emergency: it's still a world-class trauma center, but faced with deep cuts in funds, the famous hospital may be forced to abandon its historic mission of caring for the poor.(New York, NY) | | Katherine Eban Finkelstein |
| Big fun in North Florida: little towns have weird names, oysters come by the dozens and the beer flows like wine. (includes a selected listing of places to visit)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Kevin Canty |
| Biggish night. (a gathering of senior comedians at the New York Friars Club) | | |
| Blue Sky, California. (adapted from 'Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace')(True Confessions: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | David Beers |
| Bob Dole's calculated pragmatism: he bridges two sharply opposing Republican camps, drastic neo-isolationists and hyperactive global crusaders.(The Foreign Policy Race)(Cover Story) | | Owen Harries |
| Bologna through medieval eyes. (Italy; includes information on dining and hotels)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Robert Hellenga |
| Boom-at-a-glance. (the expanding Chinese economy)(China: On the Edge Of What?)(Cover Story)(Illustration) | | Jane H. Li |
| Bosnia's last best hope. (teenages who hid, fled, or fought in the war are returning to Bosnia)(Cover Story) | | Scott Anderson |
| Breaking glass: a man's wedding anniversary becomes a link to his father's past.(Lives)(Column) | | Jonathan Rosen |
| Breaking the rules: in which the know-it-alls who delight in putting the lid on what comes naturally get theirs. (grammar rules)(On Language)(Column) | | Patricia T. O'Conner |
| Broadway. (articles adapted from the New York Times Magazine from 1960-1994)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years) | | Mel Gussow, Frank Rich, Spalding Gray, Brooks Atkinson, Walter Kerr, Moss Hart, Jose Quintero, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Elenore Lester |
| 'Call me Al'? 'I'm a Dole man'? (political campaign songs like 'Happy Days Are Here Again' now out of fashion)(Lives)(Column) | | Shana Alexander |
| Celebrity mom: what happens when your son goes to school with the son of a star? Nannies don't accompany the child to play dates, mothers do.(Lives)(Column) | | Meg Wolitzer |
| Celebrity sleuths. (used as heroes of mystery stories)(1996 Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Mystery Writers of America, Advertising Supplement) | | Peter Lovesey |
| Chewing the fat. (men taking about weight gain)(Column) | | Betsy Berne |
| Children of choice. (Hers: adapted from a column written Nov. 20, 1988)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years)(Column) | | Katha Pollitt |
| Children will pay: demography's crystal ball shows that 21st-century America will be older, wiser and more ethnically diverse, but its kids face trouble. (This Way to the Future)(The Next 100 Years) | | Samuel H. Preston |
| Chilling out on the Outer Banks. (Atlantic Ocean barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Mark Edmunson |
| Chocolate, vanilla and rose petal: a sumptuous menu of ice cream treats in seven world cities.(The Sophisticated Traveler)(Directory) | | Timothy Egan, Patricia Wells, Alessandra Stanley, Edward A. Gargan, Suzanne Hamlin, Maureen B. Fant, Elizabeth Andoh |
| Choosing my religion. (rejecting parents' beliefs and choosing one's own is difficult, but now common)(Cover Story) | | Stephen J. Dubner |
| Cover boy: Chip Kidd has brought an edge to the serene dust jacket. (designer of book covers)(Interview) | | JAnet Froelich |
| Cruise Vacations: a guide to the best spring and summer cruising for 1996. (the Caribbean, Alaska, Mexico, Europe and the Mediterranean area, Bermuda, North America, Transatlantic)(Special advertising section) | | Christopher Lofting |
| Cruising to the rescued treasures of Nubia. (Egypt; includes a related article on enjoying the Nubian Sea)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Barbara Mertz |
| Cultivating the past: old garden tools provide a rich harvest for collectors.(Home Design) | | Anne Raven |
| Dale Evans: homebody on the range.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Elizabeth Gilbert |
| Death as a friend: Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, in his last days, reflected on his controversial career and his confidence in Heaven.(Interview) | | |
| 'Dig-gity dig-ity dig-ity ja-bah-doh-be:' Savion Glover's feet speak a private language that is redefining tap. | | Bruce Weber |
| Dirty laundry: a housekeeper deciphered her employers' intimate secrets.(Lives)(Column) | | Louise Rafkin |
| Doing the right thing: when a daughter's fancy turns Republican, a mother wonders where she went wrong.(Hers)(Column) | | Joan Caraganis Jakobson |
| 'Don't mess with our cultural patrimony!' On the way to the Met: a tale of politically loaded Chinese treasures, angry young Taiwanese, nervous corporate sponsors and a sudden punch in the face. | | Andrew Solomon |
| Don't say no to Jeffrey.(Dreamworks SKG partner Jeffrey Katzenberg) | | Bernard Weinraub |
| Dream interiors. (home decorating)(Special Advertising Supplement)(Illustration)(Buyers Guide) | | Barbara Winfield |
| Dysfunctional nation: until her memoir was published, she though only her family was full of freaks.(Lives)(Column) | | Mary Karr |
| Eating, breathing, drinking: life in the Cheever family was right out of a Cheever novel - every hour was cocktail hour.(True Confessions: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Susan CHeever |
| Eat or be eaten: they said Teflon would change your life. They were wong. Four inventions that sparked a revolution, and four that fizzled.(How We Eat: An America Divided)(Cover Story) | | Michelle Huneven |
| Eat Street: from Istanbul to Brooklyn, every city has at least one cluster of restaurants where reservations are not required.(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Carey Goldberg, Sarah Lyall, Stephen Kinzer, Tom Ferrell, Maureen B. Fant, Elizabeth Andoh, Lennie Magida |
| Eleanor Roosevelt: always the First Lady.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Charles Kuralt |
| Elizabeth Taylor: the fairest of them all.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Anne Hollander |
| Erin's looking for Leg-Rub Steve. Fly looking for CD's to steal. Star's looking for Jaya. And it's starting to get cold. (middle class kids who live homeless in New York City by choice) | | Ian Fisher |
| Escape to the Azores: on these remote islands, whitewashed houses and blue hydrangeas. (includes a list of selected hotels and restaurants)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Robert D. Kaplan |
| Europe's reborn right. (Austria's Joerg Haider preaching against foreigners in the country is just one example of the new European radical right) | | Mark Hunter |
| Fabled road to the Far East. (old trade route called The Silk Road into China, includes information on three tour offers for The Silk Road)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Karl E. Meyer |
| Facets of Clinton: he is talented, articulate, intelligent, open and colorful. Also undisciplined, fumbling, obtuse, defensive and self-justifying.(Pres. Bill Clinton)(Cover Story) | | Todd S. Purdum |
| Facing the future: The new computer interfaces strive for the personal touch.(Home Design) | | Phil Patton |
| Fade out.(German model Nico, lead singer of the Velvet Underground) | | Susanna Moore |
| Fear of flying: how a twister turned one family's life around.(Lives)(Column) | | Antonya Nelson |
| Festivity in Montreal: an anniversary is only one thing to celebrate among autumn's bounties. (Montreal, Quebec) (includes list of sights and restaurants)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Howard Frank Mosher |
| Flirting with suicide.(ineffectiveness of public health campaigns on AIDS and other issues)(Cover Story) | | Jesse Green |
| Florida's feast of Tiffany. (Winter Park, in the Orlando, FL area; includes a selected list of hotels and points of interest)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | William Weaver |
| Flower childhood.(True Confessions: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Lisa Michaels |
| Fluent in French: be that as it may, Diane Forley has an allergy to froufrou. (includes recipes)(Food)(Column) | | |
| Formerly Anonymous. (author denies that she wrote 'Primary Colors')(Column) | | Lisa Grunwald |
| Fraternity reigns: the case for a society based not on rights but on unselfishness. (Church and State: includes a related article on the altered brain of mankind)(The Next 100 Years) | | Richard Rorty, Elizabeth Royce |
| Frida Kahlo: victim status. (includes a photograph of the masked Guerrilla Girls holding pictures of Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Frida Kahlo, Augusta Savage, and Georgia O'Keeffe)(Heroine Worship: Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Dan Hofstader |
| From comrade to capitalist, grumpily: Astrid Kumbernuss, Germany. (Olympic shotput)(Women Muscle In: An Olympic Special)(Cover Story) | | Laura Wilson, Elizabeth Royte |
| From Finistere to the Western Isles: three islands in the Atlantic are Brittany writ small. (includes related list of hotels and restaurants)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Alice Furland |
| From house to home.(home furnishings design)(Special Advertising Supplement) | | |
| From room to room: tracing cherished possessions through the changing decor of three stylish women. (Nancy Lancaster, Lee Radziwill and Min Hogg) | | Melissa Bellinelli |
| Generational pioneer.(Column) | | Edward Hoagland |
| Gertrude Stein: the salonkeeper.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Cynthia Ozick |
| Getting away with murder. (why write the mystery novel)(1996 Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Mystery Writers of America, Advertising Supplement) | | Gregory McDonald |
| 'Give back to your community,' she said. But which one? A doctor's struggle with identity politics. (Cuban-born gay doctor in the United States)(adapted from 'The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity and Desire') | | Rafael Campo |
| God and toothpaste: Tom Chappell, the personal-hygiene mogul, preaches that virtue pays. But can he convince C.E.O.'s who have to answer to a higher authority - shareholders: (Tom's of Maine makers of toothpaste and other products) | | Douglas S. Barasch |
| Godfather of exotic modernism: rediscovering James Mont, a 20th-century designer with an oriental flair and a shady past.(Home Design Supplement) | | Mitchell Owens |
| Going back: Cambridge. (visiting Cambridge, England)(The Sophisticated Traveler)(includes list of restaurants and lodgings) | | Hugh Johnson |
| Going back: Oxford. (travel to Oxford, England)(The Sophisticated Traveler)(includes list of restaurants and lodgings) | | Penelope Lively |
| Going public. (fashion houses are going public and offering stock)(Style)(Column) | | Holly Brbach |
| Golfing in paradise: a guide to the game, Hawaiian style.(The Sophisticated Traveler: Special Advertising Supplement) | | |
| Granada, Andalusia's heart and soul. (Spanish city of the Alhambra)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | N. Scott Momaday |
| Green alert.(the color green in fashion) | | Patricia Marx |
| Greta Garbo: the sphinx.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Isabella Rossellini |
| Gun play.(comment on children and guns) | | David Updike |
| Had I but known: cautionary tales from seven travelers who learned the hard way.(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Cynthia Heimel, Paul Levy, Dan Hofstadter, Robert Barnard, Meena Alexander, D. Keith Mano, Laura Cunningham |
| Hank Williams. Garth Brooke. BR5-49? (for now Nashville, TN is expanding as country music explodes in popularity to a posible eclipse in the near future) | | Peter Applebome |
| Has anybody seen the Democratic Party? (neo-Republicans cloud the party's definition)(The Democrats: Then and Now)(Cover Story) | | Richard N. Goodwin |
| Hating Goldie: what kind of mother doesn't let her child suffer?(True Confessions: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Phyllis Rose |
| Hazing days: the fraternity initiation remains the most secret of campus rituals - and the most debauched.(Illustration) | | Anne Matthews, C. Taylor Crothers |
| Helen Keller: the achiever.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Mary Jo Salter |
| Helping with games. (marketing your own mystery novels)(1996 Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Mystery Writers of America, Advertising Supplement) | | Reginald Hill |
| Hen party: for the hostess with delusions of grandeur, a game plan. (includes recipes)(Food)(Column) | | Molly O'Brien |
| High is low: finally the wall dividing the art world collapses. (includes a related article on which 20th century works will be of importance in the 21st century)(The Next 100 Years) | | Ann Douglas |
| High season for the Secret Service: another presidential campaign. More working that rope, leapfrogging that limo, covering that arc.(Illustration) | | Eugene Richards, Bruce Porter |
| High-tech Olympics: the race is to the swift - and to the lasers, transponders and accelerometers.(Fast Forward)(Column) | | James Gleick |
| His accident: marrying a man in a wheelchair has meant finding a new way to walk.(Lives)(Column) | | Alison Craiglow Hockenberry |
| His life is his mind. (quadriplegic Jungian psychiatrist James Hall) | | Dee Wedmeyer |
| Hitting roadblocks en route to a Grand Old Party.(problems in planning 1996 Republican National Convention) | | |
| Honey, what's your name again: Alzheimer's, sometimer's, halftimer's memory loss obsesses the over-50 set.(Lives)(Column) | | Letty Cottin Pogrebin |
| Hoop is thicker than water: Rick Barry has four sons. They're all basketball players. No one seems very happy about it. (Jon, Brent, Scooter and Drew Barry, sons of Hall of Famer Rick Barry) | | Bruce Schoenfeld |
| Hot dog. (adapted from 'The Shadow Man')(True Confessions: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Mary Gordon |
| Household names: the most innovative ideas in home design are coming from young artisans: on these pages are six who aren't afraid to reinterpret tradition.(Home Design Supplement) | | Lucie Young |
| How a quack becomes a canard. (conspiracies theories on the Internet) | | Jonathan Vankin, John Whalen |
| How crazy was Zelda? (six letters from F. Scott Fitzgerald to his mentally ill wife's doctors during the 1930s; includes a facsimile of a letter in Fitzgerald's own handwriting) | | Peter D. Kramer |
| How I lost money in the bull market: getting a piece of the action can often mean getting taken for a ride.(Lives)(Column) | | Walter Kirn |
| How the women won: the story of this year's Olympics will be the women. It couldn't have happened without Brtty Friedan, Olga Korbut - and Richard Nixon.(Women Muscle In: An Olympic Special)(Cover Story) | | Jere Longman |
| How to make a Ph.D matter. | | Louis Menand |
| How to make roles? Make movies. (Italian-American actor Stanley Tucci turns to filmmaking) | | Eric Konisgberg |
| How to slash, maul and jab your way to stardom: lessons from the Rangers' Ulf Samuelson, the most hated player in hockey - and also, not coincidentally, one of the best. | | Jeff Z. Klein |
| Hush of the hives: in the death of his bees, a beekeeper learns the limits of progress.(Lives)(Column) | | Derrick Jensen |
| I am woman, serve me turkey neck. (a woman has lunch at several places in NYC, NY that caters to men) | | |
| I'm no Howard Stern, you dummy. (Don Rickles)(Interview) | | Alex Witchel |
| I'm sorry, I won't apologize: a simple statement of contrition can fix an honest mistake. So why can't men seem to do it. | | Deborah Tannen |
| In defense of federal power: just 208 years after Madison and company warned against yielding too much to the states, the New Federalists renew the message. | | Kathleen M. Sullivan, Alan Brinkley |
| Inner spaces: a journey into the lives of women who have created rooms of their own.(Home Design) | | Chris Casson Madden |
| Inside the meritocracy machine.(the admissions process at Harvard University)(Cover Story) | | Bruce Weber |
| In the beginning there was a Bible discussion group, and then PBS came calling. (Bill Moyers' TV miniseries, 'Genesis: A Living Conversation) | | Rodger Kamenetz |
| Intimacies.(A Celebration of One Hundred Years of Pictures: 1896-1996)(Illustration) | | |
| Investing in a candidate.(financial markets and the presidential election)(Column) | | Adam (American politician) Smith |
| It's his party. (Ronald Reagan's lasting influence over Republican politics)(Cover Story) | | Garry Wills |
| Jackie Chan, American action hero? (movie star is highly successful in Asia)(Interview) | | Jaime Wolf |
| James is a girl. (James King and the life of a successful teenage fashion model)(Cover Story) | | Jennifer Egan, Nan Goldin |
| Jenny McCarthy: the McCarthy era, no she's not just another blond bimbo with a big smile, she's a cash machine.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Rachel Abramowitz |
| Junior comes out perfect: genetic screening will give privileged parents heightened capacity to shape the destinies of their children. What about the other parents? (Behind Closed Doors)(The Next 100 Years) | | Philip Kitcher |
| Karen Carpenter's second life. (album made four years before her death from anorexia nervosa, to be released) | | Rob Hoerburger |
| Kate Smith: the voice of America. (includes a related article on Sophia Loren)(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Marjorie Rosen, Will Friedwald |
| Keeping secrets. (legislation may be needed to protect patient confidentiality under the managed health care system) | | Maggie Scart |
| Kitchens and baths: beyond design.(Special Advertising Section) | | |
| Land of elves and trolls and pretty ponies. (Iceland; includes a suggested sit of hotels)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Angeline Goreau |
| Legends; champions. (Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman of the record-breaking Chicago Bulls basketball team)(Cover Story) | | Jeff Coplon |
| Living dangerously: lead in the pipes. Asbestos in the walls. Does my house wish me dead?(Lives)(Column) | | Tom Drury |
| Living in tongues. (adapted from 'The Factory of Facts')(True Confessions: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Lue Sante |
| Living too long: the human species is experiencing profound change in the stages of life, and there's a catch. | | Michael Norman |
| Looks.(A Celebration of One Hundred Years of Pictures: 1896-1996)(Illustration) | | |
| Look who's hugging trees now: western conservationists thought they had environmentalists on the run. But even loggers don't want timber companies writing laws. | | Timothy Egan |
| Lost and found: at least 100,000 Rwandan children were separated from their families. A reunification is something of a miracle.(Illustration) | | Philip Gourevitch, Reza |
| Love is all you'll need: two views of romance in the next century. (Playland: includes 'Da Going Out Guide' for New Yorkers of the future)(The Next 100 Years) | | David Foster Wallace, David Ives, A. M Homes |
| Madeleine Albright's audition: in an all-male circle, restless determination has made her more than Madame Ambassador. But does she have what it takes to become Secretary of State?(The Foreign Policy Race)(Cover Story) | | Elaine Sciolino |
| Mae West: our little chickadee.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Martha McPhee |
| Mama's girl. (excerpted from 'Mama's Girl')(True Confessions: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Veronica Chambers |
| Many happy returns. (an unshopper returns merchandise)(Style)(Column) | | Patricia Marx |
| Margaret Thatcher: the true believer.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Brenda Maddox |
| Marion Anderson: grace under fire.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Jessye Norman |
| Martha Graham: sacred monster.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Alma Guillermoprieto |
| Martha Stewart: Public Enemy No. 1. (includes a related article on the sound of Katherine Hepburn's voice)(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Patricia McLaughlin, Lauren Bacall |
| Maui, Molokai & Lanai, the Magic Isles. (Hawaii)(Special Advertising Section)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | |
| Men who have run ... and lost. (five former candidates for various public offices make brief comments) | | |
| Milan, beyond chic. (includes a selected list of restaurants and hotels)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Barbara Lazear Ascher |
| Miller & son: a relationship renewed in the crucible of Hollywood. (playwright Arthur Miller and his son Robert Miller) | | Stephen Farber |
| Mind games: sometimes there's nothing better than a perfectly wild theory to explain how the world works.(Lives)(Column) | | Frank Conroy |
| Minivan crisis: what's a mother to do when her soul shouts 'sports car' but her life murmurs 'utility vehicle?(Lives)(Column) | | Ann Hood |
| More method than madness in North Korea.(visitor's perception of the country) | | Walter Russell Mead |
| Mothers and sons. (six sets of mothers and sons show their deep links)(Illustration) | | Henry A. Kissinger, Robin Williams, Mariana Cook, Isabel Allende, Paula Kissenger, James Ginsberg, Joshua Edelman, Laurie Williams, Bette Bao Lord |
| My first assignment: twelve photographers recall how they got their starts.(A Celebration of One Hundred Years: Pictures, 1896-1996) | | Andrew Eccles, Elliot Erwitt, Mary Ellen Mark, Alex Webb, Nan Goldin, Susan Meiselas, O. Winston Link, Gilles Peress, Fred Conrad, Josef Astor, Charles Higgins Jr., Edward Keating |
| My inner shrimp: no matter how much you grow, once you've been looked down on, you'll never walk tall.(Lives)(Column) | | Garry Trudeau |
| My shortstop is better than yours.(New York Mets' Rey Ordonez; New York Yankees' Derek Jeter)(Interview) | | Jack Curry |
| Naming names.(terms for different types of people)(On Language)(Column) | | Charles Harrington Elster |
| Nana and the anchormen: whether it's CNN or C-Span, all news all the time has left one woman's grandmother pathologically well informed.(Lives)(Column) | | Emily Yoffe |
| Naomi Campbell: model of decorum.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Guy Trebay |
| New! Original! Nonfat! Fat-free: you can sell anything if you get the label right. (includes related articles on foods)(How We Eat: An America Divided)(Cover Story) | | David Shields, Julia Alvaez, Williams Grimes |
| New Orleans: a panoply of people and pleasures. (includes related list of places to see)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Michael Dorris |
| New screen personalities: the television, once a nondescript standby, may finally be attaining style. (some new sets and their prices are discussed)(Home Design Supplement) | | John Birmingham |
| Next target: nicotine. (regulation of tobacco)(Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler)(includes related article on FDA agendas)(Cover Story) | | Jeffrey Goldberg |
| Not a clue. (a suspense story is started to intrigue the reluctant reader)(1996 Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Mystery Writers of America, Advertising Supplement) | | Evan Hunter |
| Now, forager. (shopping for used clothing; includes list of second hand stores)(Fashions of the Times) | | Judith Thurman |
| O.K., so I'm fat: the worst part, he thought, cheeks full of Bananas Foster, may be the smug superiority of thin people. (adapted from 'The Alphabet of Modern Annoyances')(Lives)(Column) | | Neil Steinebrg |
| Old dad.(64-year-old father is raising a 13-year-old daughter)(Column) | | Roger Wilkins |
| Our system, right and wrong. (a collection of unusual campaign ploys, gaffes, and candidates in some local elections for 1996) | | |
| Outer city blues: what began as a country utopia for the parents turned into a nightmare for the kids.(Lives)(Column) | | Francine Prose |
| Pantelleria, island of stone and sun. (southeast of Sicily; includes a listing of hotels and restaurants)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Mary Taylor Simeti |
| Patsy Cline: honky-tonk angel.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Rosanne Cash |
| Perils.(A Celebration of One Hundred Years of Pictures: 1896-1996)(Illustration) | | |
| Perot, alone: ignoring his advisers, bypassing campaign rallies and speaking mainly through television, Ross Perot is running a very lonely race. (1996 presidential helpful) | | Gerald Posner |
| Picasso's family album.(members of Pablo Picasso's family describe life with the painter)(Interview) | | Michael Kimmelman |
| Postcards from Paris. (a visitor in Paris, France discusses postcards)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | David Slavitt |
| Pregnancy, unseated: my feet hurt. The heat made me feel faint. Why would no one let met sit down?(Lives)(Column) | | Lisa Schiffren |
| Primal chic: natural fibers are just the beginning. It's time to go way back to the basics.(Home Design) | | Mark O'Donnell |
| Primary and other colors. (color terms in English; includes other language use information)(On Language)(Column) | | Jeffrey McQuain |
| Professor Warren's disciple. (Austin Warren, English literature professor)(True Confessions: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Leonard Michaels |
| Prof talk: say what? Maybe they just like te sound of their own voices. (jargon by college teachers)(On Language)(Column) | | Stephanie Bloom, James L. Wunsch |
| Puffins galore: around Britain's shores with a flock of ardent birders. (bird watching on the sea washed islands and coasts of UK)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Justin Kaplan, Bernays Anne |
| Quel Panama! The perennially corrupt country, where the author has set his latest thriller, has a a chance to cast out all that is rotten. Would you say the same for England? | | John le Carre |
| Race and rights. (adapted from a sampling of articles from 1901-1992 from the New York Times Magazine)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years) | | Joseph Lelyveld, Rosemary L. Bray, Arthur Ashe, Baldwin James, William Serrin, Orde Coomes, Claude Brown, Martin Luther King Jr., John Oliver Killens, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Stokely, Wilma Dykeman, C. Eric Lincoln |
| Race is over: Black, white, red, yellow - same difference.(The Next 100 Years) | | Stanley Crouch |
| Rebel with a dye job.(getting hair dyed pink) | | Sono Motoyama |
| Return of a scarred Fidelista: Ana Fidelia Quirot, Cuba. (Olympic track athlete)(Women Muscle In: An Olympic Special)(Cover Story) | | Elizabeth Royte, Lizzie Himmel |
| Riding the bull for a day. (September 11, 1996 with Michael DiCarlo of DFS Advisors, mutual fund manager)(Cover Story) | | Diane K. Shah |
| Riverboat gambling with government. (The Clinton administration and a possible vision for a US domestic policy) | | Richard G. Darman |
| Robert Thurman doesn't look Buddhist: the Dalai Lama's man in America - scholer, writer, father of Uma - is not longer a practicing monk. But he still knows how to preach.(Interview) | | Rodger Kamenetz |
| Running against Hillary: but what is Elizabeth Dole running for? (wife of GOP presidential hopeful Bob Dole) | | Elisabeth Bumiller |
| Rush to a lethal judgement: by ruling in favor of assisted suicide, two federal courts have pre-empted a crucial moral debate - and devised a wronghead 'right.'(Against Doctor-Assisted Suicide)(Cover Story) | | Stephen L. Carter |
| Safe-sex lies: straight, drug-free men and women who grew up in the age of AIDS are getting the message - but it's the wrong one. | | Meghan Daum |
| San Francisco with a twist.(sampling of Martinis in San Francisco, CA)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | L. Rust Hills |
| Scholarships for the rich: elite colleges are competing so ferociously for desirable students, needy or not, that financial aid for deserving applicants is coming under pressure. | | Andrew Delbanco |
| Scores count: principal Michael Johnson is helping poor Black students pass state exams. So why do school reformers see him as a pariah? | | Sara Mosle |
| Sense and edibility: who puts the squiggle on the Hostess cupcakes? Portraits from the frontiers of the food industry.(How We Eat: An America Divided)(Cover Story) | | ALexander Bandon |
| Shannon! Jaycie! Dominique! and again! (six members of the former US Olympics gymnastics team in the post-Olympics world of entertainment) | | Jonathan Van Meter |
| Shopping Beauty: a cosmetic guide. (includes related articles)(Special Advertising Supplement)(Interview)(Buyers Guide) | | |
| Shortstop with surgeon's hands. (Dot Richardson Olympic athlete in Women's Softball)(Women Muscle In: An Olympic Special)(Cover Story) | | Elizabeth Royte, Sheila Metzner |
| Show time! A portfolio of images from the spring '96 collection.(Style)(Column)(Illustration) | | Holly Brubach, Bill Sullivan |
| Shtetl for a week: every year at Rosh ha-Shanah, a few thousand Jews return to Ukraine to celebrate with a rebbe who has been dead for nearly two centuries. (Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav)(Illustration) | | Russell Miller, Gueorgui Pinkhassov |
| Sin of ommission. (a woman forgets her skirt as she dashes out to work)(Style)(Column) | | Ken Gross |
| Sittings.(A Celebration of One Hundred Years of Pictures: 1896-1996)(Illustration) | | |
| Slumming: for the bourgeoisie, package tours of life's seamier side. But no one gets too dirty.(Culture Zone)(Column) | | Michiko Kakuyani |
| Something's got to give. (daily routine and stress for air traffic controllers)(Cover Story) | | Darcy Frey |
| South Africa. (sampling of articles adapted from The New York Times Magazine)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years) | | Anthony Lewis, Sheila Rule, Alan Paton, Samuel Dash, Nadine Gordiner |
| Southern comfort. (Krispy Kreme doughnuts from Atlanta, Ga finally are sold in New York, NY)(Style)(Column) | | Roy Blount Jr. |
| Spaced out. (Sunday Observer: adapted from a column written May 18, 1975)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years)(Column) | | Russell Baker |
| Spare and sumptuous. (the trend in home ornaments and decoration as expressed in seven different settings from a bedroom with a jewel-box Chinese wedding bed to a home in a gutted warehouse, to a high-tech lived-in kitchen)(Home Design Supplement) | | Julie V. Iovine, Laurel Graeber, Timothy Jack Ward |
| Speak softly, carry a veiled threat. (U.S. policy towards China's internal and foreign actions)(China: On the Edge Of What?)(Cover Story) | | Fareed Zakaria |
| Sports extremist: the most fearless professional bicyclist in American is a foulmouthed punk named Missy. (Missy Giove) | | David Browne |
| Still a mystery? (crime novels)(1996 Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Mystery Writers of America, Advertising Supplement) | | Edna Buchanan |
| Stop soft money. Now. (corrupt campaign money and American politics) | | Fred Wertheimer |
| Stupid baseball tricks: with gimmicks and gizmos, Fox, the network of the 90's takes on the sport of the 50's, looking for the television ratings of the 70's. | | Tom Friend |
| Suppose? And what if? (a mystery writer's mind set)(1996 Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Mystery Writers of America, Advertising Supplement) | | Mary Higgins Clark |
| Surviving a crash: in the wake of lost loved ones comes grief, hysteria, and finally an uneasy acceptance of how things are.(Lives)(Column) | | Larkin Warren |
| Sweat.(A Celebration of One Hundred Years of Pictures: 1896-1996)(Illustration) | | |
| Taking a page from their book.(filmmakers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory)(Interview) | | Henry Alford |
| The 21st century starts here: the new Shanghai is a metropolis where money and only money rules. And money buys freedom - of a kind.(China: On the Edge Of What?)(Cover Story) | | Ian Buruma, Gueorgui Pinkhassov |
| The accountant is a terrorist. (Arab suicide-bomber captured in Israel) | | Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins |
| The age of beauty: the line between childhood and adolescence was marked by one horrible dress. (excerpted from 'The Power of Beauty)(Lives)(Column) | | Nancy Friday |
| The age of the literary memoir is now.(True Confessions: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | |
| The answer is national standards. (education reform means a federal curriculum and federal tests)(Cover Story) | | Sara Mosle |
| The artificial womb is born: at birth, fathers are merely bystanders. Someday, mothers may be too. (Behind CLosed Doors)(The Next 100 Years) | | Perri Klass |
| The asteroids are coming! The asteroids aer coming!. (Tom Gehrels tries to save the earth from disaster) | | Thomas Mallon |
| The beats of Edinburgh: from the margins of Scottish society comes a new, beer-soaked, drug-filled, profanity-laced, violently funny literature. | | Lesley Downer |
| The best of the season. (includes a holiday calendar of events)(holiday shopping guide to New York City: Advertisement)(Buyers Guide) | | Catherine Findlay, Carolyn Carreno, Donna Berg, Heidi Godoff, Jack Ribas, Susan Burns |
| The birth of a revolutionary class: today's elderly are bringing down the social welfare state and threatening the nation's economic future.(Adapted from 'The Future of Capitalism') | | Lester C. Thurow |
| The body politic. (politicians' wives create different images with their dress and style)(Style)(Column) | | Susanna Moore |
| The bulldozer hits a roadblock. (French Pres. Jacques Chirac) | | Craig R. Whitney |
| The Caribbean: Destination of the Sun.(Advertising Supplement) | | Christopher Lofting |
| The child I've left behind. (excerpts from letters dating from the 1800s found in the archives of the New York Foundling Hospital) | | Lisa Lipkin |
| The China left behind: a photographer returns to his ancestral village and finds that his family wasn't the only one that move on. (Mark Leong) | | |
| The color purple. (purple lipstick for African American women) | | Veronica Chambers |
| The company he keeps: at the New York City Ballet, Peter Martins has survived 13 years of sniping. Time to snipe back. | | Deborah Weisgall |
| The cuts that go deeper. (psychological affects of cosmetic surgery)(Cover Story) | | Charles Siebert |
| The decay of cinema. (film as an art form is in decline)(Column) | | Susan Sontag |
| The do-it-yourself art world: a guide to the un-gallery scene. (art dealers in New York City, NY without galleries)(Cover Story) | | Julia Szabo |
| The do-it-yourselfer dealers. (innovative ways to market art without using galleries in New York City, NY)(Cover Story) | | Ellen Pall, Katrin Thomas |
| The drama queens: Monroe, Garland, Callas ... they paid the price for living on the edge. (also Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf)(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Daniel Mendelsohn |
| The early years. (includes articles adapted from the New York Times Sunday Supplement, 1897-1937)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years) | | Mary Lee, W.A. Warn, Meyer Berger, Waldemar Kaempffert, Albert Einstein, Otto D. Tolischus, D.H. Lawrence |
| The education of an insufferable food dilettante: it's not what you eat, it's how you talk about it that counts.(How We Eat: An America Divided)(Cover Story) | | James Gorman |
| The end of the world on 10 tugriks a day.(Lonely Planet Guidebooks)(includes comparison of travel guides) | | Philip Shenon |
| The equalizer: in his car, he felt liberated. His paralysis didn't matter. He was as desirable as anybody else.(Lives)(Column) | | Steve Fiffer |
| The fall of communism. (articles adapted from the New York Times Magazine)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years) | | Bill Keller, John Darnton, Robert Conquest, Dam Michnik, Czeslaw Milosz, Christoph Hein |
| The final session. (anecdote about a mortally ill psychotherapist)(Column) | | Bill Gordon |
| The fungus among us. (includes descriptions of 5 pathogenic fungi) | | Wendy Marston |
| The future of nostalgia: yesterday never looked better than it will tomorrow. (Hindsight)(The Next 100 Years)(Column) | | Garrison Keillor |
| The Galapagos, caravansary of the sea. (diving trip in the Galapagos Islands)(The Sophisticated Traveler)(includes related article on arranging diving trips) | | Frances Fitzgerald |
| The garden path. (tending gardens and children replace cosmetics and meticulous grooming)(Style)(Column) | | Louise Erdrich |
| The geography of taste: Miracle Whip plays to the heartland, and Best Foods mayonnaise rules in the West. (certain brand name foods are popular in specific sections of the United States)(How We Eat: An America Divided)(Cover Story) | | Florence Fabricant |
| The gilded cage: they say a man's home is his castle. Unless, of course he's under house arrest.(Lives)(Column) | | Andy Behrman |
| The girls next door: Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, Mary Tyler Moore ... not the prettiest girls in the class, but the peppiest.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Jeanine Basinger |
| The golfer's Hawaii.(Special Advertising Section)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | George Engebreston |
| The great outdoors. (a sampling of articles adapted from ones appearing in The New York Times Magazine from 1909-1989)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years) | | Michael Pollan, Winston Churchill, Wilbur Wright, Lauren D. Lyman, James B. Edson, Kurt Vonnegut, Roger Tory Peterson |
| The grunge American novel: David Foster Wallace is being touted as the Jay McInerney of the 90's. Can he survive the attention? (author of 'Infinite Just')(Word & Image)(Column) | | Frank Bruni |
| The hacks are back. (Gennadi Zyuganov, Russian presidential candidate is too mediocre to do the country any good: includes a brief profile of four of his major backers)(Cover Story) | | Alessandra Stanley |
| The haves have less: meritocracy having surged to power in the 20th century, will lose its grip in the 21st. (Getting Ahead)(The Next 100 Years) | | Nicholas Lemann, Gaia Young |
| The Hebron hurdle. (West Bank settlement dispute is one of Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu's biggest problems) | | Yossi Klein Halevi |
| The heroes.(1996 Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Mystery Writers of America, Advertising Supplement) | | Gerald Seymour |
| The hollow man: one of the worst things about Vietnam is that it killed even those who survived. (adapted from a speech at the Bemis Free Lectures series, Lincoln, MA)(Lives)(Column)(Transcript) | | Michael Norman |
| The holocaust was no secret: Churchill knew. We all knew, and couldn't do anything about it - except win the war. | | William J. Vanden Heuvel |
| The insomniac: he has tried everything from warm milk to melatonin, but has found that sleep is like desire, it must overtake you.(Lives)(Column) | | Bill Hayes |
| The invisible family. (living in the Federal Witness Protection Program)(Cover Story) | | Robert Sabbag |
| Their moment: fifteen of the world's greatest female athletes photographed by fifteen of the world's greatest female photographers.(Women Muscle In: An Olympic Special)(Cover Story) | | Laura Wilson, Lauren Greenfield, Elizabeth Royte, Sally Gall, Mary Ellen Mark, Giorgia Fiorio, Effie Semotan, E.J. Camp, Monica Almedida, Lise Sarfati, Sheila Metzner, Karen Kuchn, Lizzie Himmel, Melodie McDaniel, Joyce Ravid |
| The Jean-Luc Godard of Long Island. (filmmaker Hal Hartley) | | Peter de Jonge |
| The Jew who fought to stay German: Victor Klemperer survived Nazism, his belief in German superiority shaken but intact. Now his recently published diaries are creating a storm in Germany. | | |
| The just-do-it shrink. (radio therapist Dr. Laura Schlessinger) | | Rebecca Johnson |
| The kindest cut: I had been teetering on the brink of matronliness. Now I shop at Victoria's Secret. What a difference a mastectomy makes.(Lives)(Column) | | Melissa Bloch |
| The literary agent as Zelig. (Andrew Wylie) | | Frank Bruni |
| The longest war in the world: Sudan has been fighting for 30 of the last 40 years, 13 of the past 17 decades. Strife is the country's business, and warlords are its tycoons.(factions headed by Riek Machar, John Garang, and Hassan Al-Turabi) | | Bill Berkeley |
| The method of a neo-nazi mogul; George Burdi and other racist leaders know how to reach the youth of America: through their computers, and through rock-and-roll. | | Stephan Talty |
| The morality of fat: in low-fat theology, dietary prudence is good, a taste for fat is immoral. (includes a related article on the joys of a coke drink as a treat after English boarding school fare)(How We Eat: An America Divided)(Cover Story) | | Molly O'Neill, Peter Iyer |
| The morgue is alive: in The Times's sprawling achieves, the articles deliver the facts. It's the pictures that tell the stories. (New York Times newspaper files)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years of Pictures: 1896-1996) | | Luc Sante |
| The most dangerous game. (paleontologist Richard E. Leakey enters Kenyan politics with a new political party) | | Virginia Morell |
| The Net is a waste of time: and that's exactly what's right about it. (Internet) | | William (Canadian writer) Gibson |
| The next frontier: invisible: welcome to the age of the microscopic. (includes a related article on domesticating tiny monkeys to handle the tiny control of futuristic home gadgetry: Quantum Leaps)(The Next 100 Years) | | Charles Siebert |
| The next pro-lifers: they are conservatives and liberals, believers and agnostics. What they share is the conviction that to legalized assisted suicide is to sanction murder.(Against Doctor-Assisted Suicide)(Cover Story) | | Paul Wilkes |
| The OO's: what's the next decade if not the aughties, naughties or zeros? (includes a discussion on the use of 'like' and some malapropism examples)(On Language)(Column) | | Jack Rosenthal |
| The original-sin school of Brussels-sprout cookery. (discovering that the sprout need not be boiled to death)(How We Eat: An America Divided)(Cover Story) | | Allan Gurganus |
| The patience of Joe.(New York Yankees manager Joe Torre) | | Pat Jordan |
| The price of relaxation: what's it worth to you to exit the fast lane for the good life?(Home Design) | | Eric P. Nash, Emily Gest, Vicki Marsh |
| The reason why. (why write crime fiction)(1996 Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Mystery Writers of America, Advertising Supplement) | | Marcia Muller |
| The Rehnquist reins: the Chief Justice has brought order to the Court and won striking support for judicial restraint. But Anthony Kennedy turns out to be the decisive voice. (William H. Rehnquist; includes a related article evaluating Justice Atonin Scalia)(Cover Story) | | David J. Garrow |
| There is joy in Mudville: in the spring, one man's fancy turns to thoughts of dirt.(Lives)(Column) | | Roger B. Swain |
| The seanachie: for years Frank McCourt has been a fixture of New York's Irish-bar scene, regaling friends with his darkly comic tales. (story-telling ex-school teacher authors a book 'Angela's Ashes' at age 66) | | Robert Sullivan |
| The season in proportion: Fall's new styles are made to flatter, with a line that's long and lean.(Fashions of the Times) | | Constance C.R. White |
| The secret game: in 1944, an incredible, and illegal, basketball game was played by two North Carolina teams - one black, one white.(Sunday) | | Scott Ellsworth |
| The sex offender next door. (imapct of Megan's Law on the rights of parents, children, neighbors, and released sex felons) (Cover Story) | | Peter Davis |
| The song is ended. (songs written for Broadway musicals no longer popular as pop music cross-overs)(Cover Story) | | Jesse Green |
| The spin doctors. (the placebo effect and the nocebo effect)(Method & Madness)(Column) | | Nicholas Wade |
| The spinner spun: too much English sends pitchers and linguists to the showers.(On Language)(Column) | | WIlliam Safire |
| The stealth candidate. (Ross Perot and the threat of a third party in election year) | | Gerald Posner |
| The subjective eye. (the world view of Sebastiao Salgado and other photojournalists)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years of Pictures: 1896-1996) | | Kathy Ryan |
| The theory of supermarkets: to comprehend the Super Stop & Shop, first know how the SUper Stop & Shop comprehends you. (includes related articles on memories of food)(How We Eat: An America Divided)(Cover Story) | | Jack Hitt, Paule Marshall, Louise Erdrich |
| The thinnest blue line. (chief of police in New Orleans, LA, Richard Pennington faces a corrupt force of rapists, murderers, drug rings and robbers) | | Paul Keegan |
| The triumph of liberalism. (both the Democrats and the Republicans now have a liberal agenda) | | Roger Rosenblatt |
| The true terror is in the card: in the name of safety, authorities are rushing to require identification for everyone. They're ignoring how much damage lies down that road. | | Robet Ellis Smith |
| The ugly girl: for Heather Matarazzo, 13, playing a loser in the movies was totally cool.(role in the film 'Welcome to the Dollhouse')(Interview) | | Laura Jamison |
| The ultimate approval rating. (rating of U.S. presidents) | | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
| The Un-candidate. (Ralph Nader of the Green Party) | | Tish Durkin |
| The un-nominated; what is it about Jennifer Jason Leigh? | | Janet Maslin |
| The virgin bride: if we no longer measure a newlywed's worth by her premarital chastity, what does it matter what she does on her wedding night?(Lives)(Column) | | Jill Eisenstadt |
| The wars of Aleksandr Ivanovich Lebed. (Russian general chosen to bring peace to Chechnya; includes a related article on his four rivals for the presidency)(Cover Story) | | Michael Specter |
| The wheels of justice. (police now petrolling on bicycles)(Style)(Column) | | Ken Gross |
| The world's greatest salesman.(Silvio Berlusconi) | | Alexnader Stille |
| The wrinkle room: from a lost generation of gay men, a paradoxical legacy. (old gay men confirm the fear of aging that looms over young gay men)(Lives)(Column) | | Andrew Holleran |
| The year in hair. (the media-generated interest surrounding the hair of celebrities)(Style)(Column) | | Rob Morris |
| They laughed at Galileo too. (parapsychologist Dean Radin) | | Chip Brown |
| This year's Mr. Smith. (Victor Morales is Democrat running for Phil Gramm's Texas seat in the US Senate) | | Sam Howe Verhovek |
| Three to watch: populists of the hard right. (Filip Dewinter, Joerg Haider, Gianfranco Fini)(Europe's Reborn Right) | | Gregory Crouch |
| Tina Turner: escape artist.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Hilton Als |
| To Macau Picchu the hard way: if your body is up to it, trekking in on the arduous Inca trail is the only way to go. (includes information on three tour operations)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Phyllis Rose |
| Tomorrow never knows: you can predict some of the future some of the time, but most of the time you're dead wrong. (Endpaper)(The Next 100 Years)(Column) | | Victor S. Navasky |
| Tricks of the peanut butter trade: an enterprising young American heads down China's back alleys and muddy tracks looking for ways to get Western stuff into the hands of 1.2 billion new customers. (Michael McCune)(China: On the Edge Of What?)(Cover Story) | | Seth Faison |
| Twiggy: a stick figure.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue) | | Susan Cheever |
| Uncle Chul gets rich.(True Confessions: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Chang-rae Lee |
| Unemployment: the theme park, Johnstown, PA, is turning steel mills and coal mines into tourist sites. Now will enough tourists come? | | John Brant |
| Up in smoke: for more than 60 years, tobacco growers have prospered thanks to federal programs. Now the industry is under assault and so is their way of life. | | Luisita Lopez Terregrosa |
| Using force as a tourniquet. (Western intervention in Third-World countries) | | Joshua Muravchik |
| Uzbekistan's Golden City. (Samarkand, includes information on Hotel Samerkand and other sites to visit)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Michael Mewshaw |
| Vaults, leaps and dashes: women's sports go the distance, a tally.(Women Muscle In: An Olympic Special)(Cover Story) | | David Wallechinsky |
| Vietnam. (a sampling of articles written by journalists during the war as printed in the New York Times Magazine)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years) | | David Halberstam, Dith Pran, Peggy Durdin, Bernard B. Fall, Frances Fitzgerald, Neil Sheehan, Tom Buckley, Sydney H. Schanberg |
| Virginia Woolf: the voyage in.(Heroine Worship: Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Claudia Roth Pierpoint |
| Water work.(New York City waterfront) | | Tony Hiss, Bruce Davidson |
| Way upstate New York.(includes a list of selected camp sites, truck stops and cafes)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Hiward Frank Mosher |
| We are still only human: for better and worse, human nature remains constant. (Church and State)(The Next 100 Years) | | Verlyn Klinkenborg |
| Weirdness makes sense: there are strange subatomic mysteries for a new EInstein to solve. (Quantum Leap)(The Next 100 Years) | | Timothy Ferris |
| What happened to Fred Cuny? (disaster-relief specialist disappears in Chechnya, Russia)(Cover Story) | | Scott Anderson |
| What immigration crisis? An alien's tour through the back rooms of what is becoming America's most exaggerated threat.(Cover Story) | | Richard Raylor |
| What Nan Goldin saw this summer. (photographer)(Illustration) | | Michael Kimmelman |
| What's in a mohawk? The latest in a wave of new punk bands, Rancid speaks to a generation of young consumers of rebellion. (the mohawk haircut) | | RJ Smith |
| When plagues end: notes on the twilight of an epidemic.(After Aids)(Cover Story) | | Andrew Sullivan |
| Where mavens shop: six special stores, from Tokyo (sumo souvenirs) to Rome (papal regalia) to New York (light bulbs). (names and addresses are provided)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Catherine Reynolds, William Grimes, Diana Jean Schemo, Douglas Jehl, Elizabeth Andoh, Paula Butturini |
| Who is the best restaurateur in America? Drew Nieporent. (owner of six restaurants with a special flair; includes related articles on food)(How We Eat: An America Divided)(Cover Story) | | Alan Burdick, Arthur Lubow, Sallie Tisdale, Bernard Cooper |
| Who is the best restaurateur in America? (McDonald's; includes a related article on serving artichokes to get revenge on nazi soldiers)(How We Eat: An America Divided)(Cover Story) | | Stephen Drucker, Noelle Oxenhandler |
| Who's on trial - the heretic or the church? (Bishop Walter Righter called to task by the Episcopal church for ordaining a gay man as a deacon) | | Bruce Bawer |
| Why a mystery?(1996 Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Mystery Writers of America, Advertising Supplement) | | Laurie R. King |
| Why I disapprove of what I do: it's indecent to glamourize a $100 meal. Or is it? (New York Times restaurant critic)(How We Eat: An America Divided)(Cover Story) | | Ruth Reichl |
| Why the best doesn't always win. (the plight of Apple Macintosh and other good products) | | Peter Passell |
| Winers and diners. (where to eat and what to buy as alcoholic gifts in New York City, NY)(holiday shopping guide to New York City: Advertisement)(Buyers Guide) | | Paul Pacult |
| Winter in the city. (New York, NY offerings, includes a calendar of major events)(Special Advertising Section) | | George Plimpton |
| Women. (sampling of articles from The New York Times Magazine 1915-1995)(A Celebration of One Hundred Years) | | Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Gloria Steinem, Jane Gross, Martha Weinman Lear, Susan Brownmiller, Michael Kelly, Kathleen McLaughlin, Arthur M. Dodge Mrs., Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ann Maulsby, John T. McManus, Sloan Wilson, Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, Carson C. Hathaway, Vivian Gornick, Madeleine H. Blair, Heney Brandon, Lady Bird Johnson |
| Wooing the women: there isn't just one gender gap. There are dozens. Which is why Bill Clinton is talking about school uniforms and Bob Dole is talking about abortion. | | Gail Collins |
| Work. (the lack of work in the ghettos has had a catastrophic impact on urban life)(Cover Story) | | William Juliius Wilson |
| Wright's old neighborhood. (Frank Lloyd Wright lived in the town of Oak Park near Chicago, IL; includes tourist information with a guide to Wright houses in the town)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Paul Goldberger |
| You have just entered the black hole of American politics. (seven months before election day 1996) | | Richard L. Berke |
| Zambia: In Africa, up close and personal. (includes a listing of safari tour companies)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Richard Burgheim |
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