Reading between the lines.

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• Apocalypse Imminently Mike Davis' cycle of despair.
  Sarah Kerr Aug. 19, 1998
  
• What's in a Face? The evidence of the hands.
  Jim Holt Aug. 5, 1998
  
• Autopsy Gothic Tragic realism, Cornwell style.
  Sarah Kerr July 22, 1998
  
• Broken Mainspring Like a stopped timepiece, Haruki Murakami's clockwork fiction tells the right time twice a day.
  Lakshmi Gopalkrishnan July 15, 1998
  
• Regarding Hitler What was with that guy, anyway?
  Alex Ross July 1, 1998
  
• Light and Dark Why the civil rights movement fell apart.
  Brent Staples June 24, 1998
  
• Cheater's Poker Is the Internet full of it, or just Michael Wolff?
  Jack Shafer June 18, 1998
  
• Like Water From a Stone The secret of this fervently worshiped nonfiction stylist: neurotically withhold.
  Sarah Kerr June 10, 1998
  
• In God He ... Rockefeller's trust.
  Brent Staples June 4, 1998
  
• Folie ? The sad story of mad genius John Nash.
  Jim Holt May 29, 1998
  
• Poor Us Can spending less really cure what ails America?
  Nicholas Lemann May 21, 1998
  
• Goings On About Town The secret loves of William Shawn.
  Jim Holt May 13, 1998
  
• The Conformist Nick Hornby discovers the pleasures of fitting in.
  Sarah Kerr May 7, 1998
  
• Modern Makeup Two cheers for the beauty industry.
  Judith Shulevitz April 30, 1998
  
• Rest in Paz The death of a Mexican hero.
  Sarah Kerr April 26, 1998
  
• The Right To Be a Boor If it's not technically harassment, do we still have to tolerate it?
  Sarah Kerr April 22, 1998
  
• Up in Smoke What happened to the tobacco deal?
  Jack Shafer April 15, 1998
  
• Jews You Can Use The so-called glamour of the Jewish mob.
  Jeffrey Goldberg April 12, 1998
  
• Long Division The enduring weirdness of that war.
  Jay Tolson April 8, 1998
  
• The Theory of Everything E.O. Wilson explains how all knowledge fits together.
  Steven Pinker April 1, 1998
  
• Smiley's People Rethinking Huck and Jim.
  Sarah Kerr April 1, 1998
  
• What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate. Gertrude Stein's fascinating mistakes.
  Sarah Kerr March 25, 1998
  
• What We Have Here Is a Failure To Communicate Gertrude Stein's fascinating mistakes.
  Sarah Kerr March 25, 1998
  
• We Do Understand Deborah Tannen wants to play overprotective mother to us all.
  William Saletan March 18, 1998
  
• History Lite Paul Johnson's superficial A History of the American People.
  James Patterson March 18, 1998
  
• The Muddled Middle Alan Wolfe's One Nation, After All.
  Jonathan Rieder March 11, 1998
  
• Beyond the Pale A white man takes on his family's slave-owning past.
  Brent Staples March 4, 1998
  
• Accidental Writer Anton Chekhov's remarkable career.
  Stanley Kauffmann March 4, 1998
  
• Why Saddam Gets Away With It Fouad Ajami on Arab intellectuals.
  Warren Bass Feb. 25, 1998
  
• Unforgiven Aharon Appelfeld's The Iron Tracks refuses to make peace with the past.
  Alfred Kazin Feb. 25, 1998
  
• Without Malice A civil approach to the abortion war induces fresh despair.
  Margaret Talbot Feb. 18, 1998
  
• Hail, Australia Peter Carey turns Dickens and the 19th-century British novel upside down.
  Lakshmi Gopalkrishnan Feb. 11, 1998
  
• True Confessions Hughes speaks.
  Christopher Benfey Feb. 11, 1998
  
• Grisham's Homily Why an airport-bookstore-thriller writer is actually America's leading moralist.
  Malcolm Gladwell Feb. 7, 1998
  
• All King's Men Taylor Branch's civil-rights epic is more than a mere biography.
  David Greenberg Feb. 4, 1998
  
• The Historicist Keats Are beauty and truth just a cover for a guilty political conscience?
  James Wood Jan. 28, 1998
  
• Id? Fixes Ian McEwan's novel of elegant disaster and messy obsession.
  Alice Truax Jan. 28, 1998
  
• Brit Noir Martin Amis does Elmore Leonard.
  Luc Sante Jan. 21, 1998
  
• Eden, Oklahoma Trouble in Toni Morrison's Paradise.
  Brent Staples Jan. 14, 1998
  
• The Emperor of Ice-Cream The prankster poetry of Wallace Stevens.
  Alex Ross Jan. 8, 1998
  
• Love and Death I.B. Singer's lustful, tormented ghosts.
  Jonathan Rosen Jan. 7, 1998