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• The New Jewish Novel The complaints are very different from Portnoy's.
  Judith Shulevitz Sept. 11, 1998
  
• Missing Links The vast international conspiracy behind the Zapruder film.
  Charles Paul Freund July 31, 1998
  
• Listlessness The cultural anomie induced by the AFI's top 100 film picks.
  Charles Paul Freund July 2, 1998
  
• Suffer the Children Why can't we shut up about child abuse?
  Larissa MacFarquhar June 17, 1998
  
• Goldhagen's Willing Executioners The attack on a scholarly superstar, and how he fights back.
  Adam Shatz April 8, 1998
  
• Big-Bang Theology God makes a cosmological comeback.
  Jim Holt Feb. 12, 1998
  
• The Luck of the Irish In the movies, IRA terrorists become dashing heroes.
  James Surowiecki Jan. 22, 1998