Reading between the lines.

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• White Heat Why has James Cagney's star faded?
  Sarah Kerr Dec. 31, 1997
  
• Gone With the Wind Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, this year's literary phenomenon, is eminently forgettable.
  James Wood Dec. 24, 1997
  
• For Viewers Like You The incredible two-headed network.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 17, 1997
  
• Uncool Has hipness become the opiate of the masses?
  Alan Wolfe Dec. 10, 1997
  
• Uncool Has hipness become the opiate of the masses?
  Alexander Star Dec. 10, 1997
  
• Not-So-Plain Jane Two new biographies richly complicate Austen's life.
  Sarah Kerr Dec. 4, 1997
  
• What Ambrose Knows The fantasy world of a British hack in Washington.
  Mark Hosenball Dec. 4, 1997
  
• Hollywood Babylon Dominick Dunne, Gary Indiana, and the whole shebang.
  Alex Ross Dec. 3, 1997
  
• A Deceptively Mild-Mannered Man The genial brilliance of V.S. Pritchett
  James Wood Nov. 26, 1997
  
• The Unraveling The tale of the new Nixon tapes.
  Rick Perlstein Nov. 26, 1997
  
• Nicey-Nicey Esther Dyson's Internet utopia.
  Joseph Nocera Nov. 19, 1997
  
• The People's Hitler Does Hitler's popularity discredit populism itself?
  Adam Shatz Nov. 19, 1997
  
• Survival of the Suspicious Andy Grove and the rise of Intel.
  Paul Berman Nov. 12, 1997
  
• Survival of the Suspicious Andy Grove and the rise of Intel.
  James Surowiecki Nov. 12, 1997
  
• Sexual Behavior in the Social Scientist Was Alfred Kinsey a pioneer or a pervert?
  Thomas Laqueur Nov. 5, 1997
  
• Boston vs. Austin The political rivalry that split the nation.
  Rick Perlstein Nov. 5, 1997
  
• Tales of the City Fred Siegel's The Future Once Happened Here.
  Brent Staples Oct. 29, 1997
  
• Tales of the City Fred Siegel's The Future Once Happened Here.
  Ester R. Fuchs Oct. 29, 1997
  
• The Dying of the Light Jamaica Kincaid's memoir of her brother's death leads her, for once, beyond rage.
  David Bromwich Oct. 22, 1997
  
• The Dying of the Light Jamaica Kincaid's memoir of her brother's death leads her, for once, beyond rage.
  Sarah Kerr Oct. 22, 1997
  
• The Strange Case of Christopher Ruddy And the crime against logic being passed off as a book.
  Michael Isikoff Oct. 19, 1997
  
• The Glass Is Not Half Full Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom's overly optimistic America in Black and White.
  Randall Kennedy Oct. 15, 1997
  
• Memories of Underdevelopment J.M. Coetzee's account of his South African boyhood.
  Lakshmi Gopalkrishnan Oct. 15, 1997
  
• Future Shock John Updike's science fiction.
  Paul Berman Oct. 8, 1997
  
• The Wild West Anthony Lukas' Big Trouble.
  Sean Wilentz Oct. 1, 1997
  
• Folk Jews The mystical world of Bernard Malamud.
  Walter Kirn Sept. 24, 1997
  
• Folk Jews The mystical world of Bernard Malamud.
  Paul Berman Sept. 24, 1997
  
• Monkey Business Will Self makes apes of us all.
  Sarah Kerr Sept. 17, 1997
  
• Consulting the Stars Is management consulting just a lot of hocus-pocus?
  James Surowiecki Sept. 17, 1997
  
• The Hipness Is All Nathanael West revisited.
  Paul Berman Sept. 10, 1997
  
• Pop Fiction Donald Barthelme and the death of whimsy.
  Luc Sante Aug. 28, 1997
  
• Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man? Deborah Blum's Sex on the Brain.
  Andrew Sullivan Aug. 27, 1997
  
• Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man? Deborah Blum's Sex on the Brain.
  Steven Pinker Aug. 27, 1997
  
• Sad Sack Superman The Olympian degradation of Frederick Exley.
  Walter Kirn Aug. 20, 1997
  
• The German Eye The inventors of the Leica and their strange relationship with photography.
  Luc Sante Aug. 13, 1997
  
• The Ms. Makeover How the magazine repackaged feminism for the middle class.
  Ann Hulbert Aug. 6, 1997
  
• Cold War Follies The Cuban missile crisis was scarier than we thought.
  Warren Bass Aug. 6, 1997
  
• Hong Kong Phooey Paul Theroux's Kowloon Tong.
  Michael McCaughan July 30, 1997
  
• Hong Kong Phooey Paul Theroux's Kowloon Tong.
  Michael McCaughan July 30, 1997
  
• Pharmaceutical Realism Gabriel García Márquez's News of a Kidnapping.
  Sean Wilentz July 16, 1997
  
• Pharmaceutical Realism Gabriel García Márquez's News of a Kidnapping.
  Paul Berman July 16, 1997
  
• Nothing to Declare The Declaration of Independence wasn't all that independent.
  John Patrick Diggins July 9, 1997
  
• Trouble in Paradise Splendor and sadness in Derek Walcott's The Bounty.
  Christopher Benfey July 9, 1997
  
• He-Who-Speaks Enrique Krauze on the Aztec tendencies in Mexican history.
  Paul Berman June 25, 1997
  
• Sex Without Apologies Naomi Wolf's Promiscuities.
  Sarah Kerr June 18, 1997
  
• The Book of Ruth At last, Cynthia Ozick joins the Jewish Hall of Fame.
  David Remnick June 18, 1997
  
• The Book of Ruth At last, Cynthia Ozick joins the Jewish Hall of Fame.
  David Remnick June 18, 1997
  
• Bohemian Rhapsody Why Prague fascinates the world.
  Paul Berman June 11, 1997
  
• The Prosecution Never Rests The inextinguishable Lawrence Walsh.
  Jacob Weisberg June 4, 1997
  
• A Modern Woman Hermione Lee discovers Virginia Woolf's radicalism.
  Sarah Kerr June 4, 1997
  
• Hungry for Love Jonathan Rosen's anorexic first novel.
  Ann Hulbert May 29, 1997
  
• Luce Canon The apotheosis of a memorable bitch.
  Margaret Talbot May 28, 1997
  
• Love Bomb The mysterious motives of Hitler's would-be assassin.
  Alex Ross May 22, 1997
  
• Innocence Lost Philip Roth's American fulminations.
  Paul Berman May 21, 1997
  
• I Was Wrong Nathan Glazer comes to terms with multiculturalism.
  James Traub May 15, 1997
  
• Keystone Nazis The German resistance considered as farce.
  Alex Ross May 14, 1997
  
• All Work, No Play Arlie Russell Hochschild on why we can't stand to stay home.
  Ann Hulbert May 8, 1997
  
• Z. Pynchon's tiresome mind games.
  Walter Kirn May 7, 1997
  
• Jesus Wept Norman Mailer takes on Christ.
  A.N. Wilson April 30, 1997
  
• The Mirror Stage Jacques Lacan and biography.
  Adam Phillips April 23, 1997
  
• Redundancy Muriel Spark on human pointlessness.
  Polly Shulman April 23, 1997
  
• Celtic Pride Yeats' literary nation-building.
  James Wood April 16, 1997
  
• Judicial Restraint Sol Wachtler's worthy sentiments on prison.
  David Plotz April 16, 1997
  
• Cafe Sociology What made Studio 54 great?
  Jim Holt April 9, 1997
  
• How the West Won John Lewis Gaddis rethinks the Cold War.
  Martin Walker April 2, 1997
  
• Little Boxes The cloistered life and fantastic art of Joseph Cornell.
  Arthur Danto March 26, 1997
  
• Crime and Truth Who could be against more "truth" in the law? Read on.
  Alan M. Dershowitz March 26, 1997
  
• A Kiss Is Just A Kiss Truth can be less interesting than fiction.  
  Ann Hulbert March 19, 1997
  
• Valley Boys A computer industry roman à clef.
  Bill Barnes March 19, 1997
  
• The Rules Time-tested secrets for becoming father of our country.
  Paul Berman March 12, 1997
  
• Sisters Under the Mink Claire Bloom and Mia Farrow do deserve compassion.
  Sarah Kerr March 5, 1997
  
• Psycho Dramas The Chambers-Hiss trials, the Cold War.
  Ann Douglas Feb. 26, 1997
  
• Queen Katharine From ugly duckling to hard-ass swan.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 19, 1997
  
• Lies the Doctor Told Us Unraveling the Bettelheim legend.
  Ann Hulbert Feb. 12, 1997
  
• The Anti-Economist Robert Kuttner shops for a less dismal science.
  Clive Crook Feb. 7, 1997
  
• The Other L-Word Libertarianism is no longer afraid to speak its name.
  Jacob Weisberg Jan. 31, 1997
  
• Case Study The curiosity of Oliver Sacks.
  Luc Sante Jan. 29, 1997
  
• Judge Dread Antonin Scalia explains why we should fear men in robes.
  David Franklin Jan. 22, 1997
  
• STOP the World, I Want to Get Off William Greider demystifies global capitalism.
  John B. Judis Jan. 15, 1997
  
• Can We Really Feed the World? The problem with humanitarian intervention.
  Charles Lane Jan. 8, 1997
  
• Those Little-Town Blues Thomas Mallon's Dewey Defeats Truman offers up midcentury middle America at its cutest.
  James Wood Jan. 1, 1997