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Thursday, April 1, 1999

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Managing Editor:
Sharon Killgrove

Contributing Editor:
Harrison Solow

Contributors:
Kenneth Chen
Nancy Strickland

Publisher:
Denis Dutton

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Sharon Killgrove

Articles of Note

Today's culture boom recalls 17th century Britain, where literacy and mass printing saw the Church of England lose its monopoly on the limits of debate ... [more]

It is gruesome to send works of art, born of inspired moments, into such stony, pedantic places as museums ... [more]

Our special April 1st masthead has been produced by middle-aged boy genius
Hugh Young.

Did Frederick Barthelme and his brother Steven really cheat at blackjack? Or was it all a writer's reckless search for new material? ... [more]

Walt Whitman stands high in the literary canon. But when Ben Shahn tried to place him on a New Deal mural, all hell broke loose ... [more]
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New Books

How do discoveries happen in science and medicine? They very likely emerge from a dark path of chaos, claims M.L. Podolsky ... [more]

The romanticism of 18th century Germany provided a literary culture unprepared for Heinrich von Kleist's savage poetic imagination ... [more]

Cloudy karma: So what were you in your past life? Scholar? Slave? Whore? Lizard? Paul Edwards looks at reincarnation ... [more]
...etc.

Essays and Opinion

It's easy to see Rudolph Giuliani as an ironic case, a Mafia-buster turned Godfather. Too easy, in fact, writes John Podhoretz ... [more]

The New Battle of the Alamo: can radical Latinos led by a Yale educated woman win hearts and minds in San Antonio? ... [more]
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