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Prophet of a new postmodernism

by Mark Edmundson,

The greater challenge of Salman Rushdie

Out my computer window

by Hugh Kenner,

Travels in the land of BIX

East-west relation

by Robert Stone,

Summit on First Avenue

Stalking the billion-footed beast

by Tom Wolfe,

A literary manifesto for the new social novel

Never again? Cambodia

by Alan Berlow,

Still haunted by the Khmer Rouge

In Pursuit of Pure Horror

by Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Suzy McKee Charnas, Gahan Wilson,Edited by Jack Hitt,

Death to the death of poetry

A response to the elegists

The Sum of Their Possessions

by Murray Waas,

Taking the measure of Bush’s ambassadors

The Quiet Coup

by Philip Weiss,

U.S. v. Morison: A victory for secret government

Who needs the great works?

by E.D. (Eric Donald) Hirsch, Roger Shattuck,Edited by Jack Hitt,

Toward pure energy

by Laurence Gonzales,

My first flight in a fighter jet

The Waning (and Careful Waxing) of a Dynasty

by Theodore Friend,

A visit with the Marcos family

Public or purloined? Novelists’ letters, biographers’ rights

by Frederick Busch,

A season of portents

by Gretel Ehrlich,

The long summer of '88

Life on Mars

by Frederick W. Turner,

Cultivating a planet--and ourselves

On the road to nowhere

by Sven Birkerts,

Kerouac, re-read and regretted

All the congressmen’s men

by Walter Karp,

How Capitol Hill controls the press

In deepest gringolandia

by Bob Shacochis,

Mexico: the Third World as tourist theme park

Weathering heights

by Ron Carlson,

And you thought America was in decline

My summer swing

by Don Asher,

On the road with a fifties big band

Too much, too blindly, too fast

by Edward Hoagland,

The hunger in Manhattan life

Catching a westbound freight

by Bruce Duffy,

The hard freedom of the American hobo

The oral argument

by Kathi Alyce Drew, William Moses Kunstler, Anthony M. Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall,

Reading between the arguments

by Lyle W. Denniston,

Muck and Its Entanglements

by John Berger,

Cleaning the outhouse

Mmm, mmm, simulacrum

by Frank Gannon,

Barbeque

Users, like me

by Gail Regier,

Membership in the Church of Drugs

Our frail planet in cold, clear view

by Barry Lopez,

The South Pole as global laboratory

My shirt tale

by Stanley Elkin,

Of style and sensibility (you might say)

Killing time

by Margaret Drabble,

A visit to a Cambodian refugee camp

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