ANALYSIS
Italy in the EC: Confronting Competition
Paul Cook
'Our National Debt Is Our Most Important Problem': An Exclusive Interview With Lech Walesa
Jozef Ruszar

COMMENTARY
Bush's Banking Reforms: Will They Work?
Thomas R. Saving
Filling the Vacuum Between Prison and Probation
Norval Morris

FORUM
Arabs Consider the Wounds of War

MEDIA IN REVIEW
The World's First TV War
Ted Smith

 

FOOD
Phenomenal Peruvian Potatoes
Kay Shaw Nelson

NOSTALGIA
Affected by Her Charm: The Delta Queen
Jerry Sinkovec

PROFILE
Revolutionaries for Capitalism
Andrei Bogolubov

SPORTS
Boston Marathoners
Theodora Nelson

TRAVEL
When in Vienna, Do the Dorotheum
Nino Lo Bello

FEATURED BOOK: Ismail Kadare''s The General of the Dead Army
Introduction
Editor

A Kingdom of Bones
Bruce Bawer

Helping Democracy From Afar
Elez Biberaj

REVIEWS
Miracles and Illusions
Arnost Lustig
THE MIRACLE GAME
Josef Skvorecky

Dickens for Our Time
Linda Simon
DICKENS
Peter Ackroyd

'Prince' or Pawn?
Daniel James
GUERRILLA PRINCE
Georgie Anne Geyer

Exploring Forgotten America
John C. Chalberg
REDISVOCERING AMERICA
Roger Kennedy

Roth Plus Roth
Lionel Abel
PATRIMONY
Philip Roth

ART
Nicolas de Stael: Affirming Pure Painting
Eric Gibson
Sergei Potapov: Metaphysical Landscapes
Cathy Young

DANCE
William Forsythe: Dancing in the Mind of a Madman
Maya Wallach

DESIGN
Brychtova and Libensky: Doing Glass in Czechoslovakia
Mavis Guinard

FILM
Escapism Is Back
Richard Grenier
When Products Are the Stars
David D'Arcy

MUSIC
Sacher Torte Set to Music
Alwyn Reger
Yo-Yo Ma, Bach, and the Unaccompanied Cello
Philip Kennicott

POETRY
The Fifties, Gaia, and the Pumpkin Woman
Linda L. Holt

THEATER
Miss Saigon Comes to America
Lawrence O'Toole
Matrimony, Racism, and British Theater
Herb Greer

CRUCIBLES
Botany in the Bronx
Linda Joyce Forristal

NATURE WALK
The Perfect Plant
Chris and Shauna Somerville

SCIENCE ESSAY
Where Have All the Songbirds Gone?
Chandler S. Robbins

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Fridtjof Nansen: Nordic Polymath
John S. Edwards

FOLK WISDOM
Giufa: The Fool of Sicily
Angelo Costanzo
The Three Thieves: A Medieval French Tale
Josepha Sherman

HERITAGE
Food With a Twist: The Pretzel Family Tree
William Woys Weaver

PEOPLES
Casualty of Glasnost: Soviet Jokes and Political Humor: A Short Lesson in History
Victor Raskin
The Vision Seekers: Matses Indians of Peru
Peter Gorman
Venezuelan Folk Music
Salvador Toro Moya and David Evans