ANALYSIS
The Gulf War: Was It Worth It?
Adam Garfinkle
Managing Europe's New Migrant Tide
Kimberley A. Hamilton and Kate Holder
Soviet Muslims: Seeking Reform, Not Revolution
Marat Akchurin

COMMENTARY
The Mideast Peace Conference: Keep the PLO Out
Aharon Klieman
United Germany: A Divided Nation?
Paul Cook and Paul Dutton
State Lotteries: A Boon for State Budgets
Jim Hosker
State Lotteries: Hypocritical, Cruel and Unjust
Sandeep Mangalmurti and Robert Allan Cooke
The Mideast Peace Conference: Palestinians Deserve a Voice
Muhammad Hallaj

FORUM
After the August Revolution, What Next?

MEDIA IN REVIEW
How TV's Leftist Elite Seeks to Change America
S. Robert Lichter, Linda S. Lichter, and Stanley Rothman

 

FASHION
Hermes: From Harnesses to Handbags
Curtis Cate

FOOD
In Praise of Salmon
Adrianne Marcus

INTERVIEW
Liz Trotta: Two Decades on Network News
David Ehrlich

NOSTALGIA
The Curious Career of Billy the Kid
Gregory McNamee

TRENDS
The Selling of Selling
Steve Salerno

FEATURED BOOK: Jung Chang's Wild Swans
Introduction
Editor

A Century of Tears
Howard Goldblatt

Testament to Courage
Harold C. Hinton

Chinese Women: 'Those Who Hold Up Half the Sky'
Scarlet Cheng

REVIEWS
Will the Cradle Fall?
Brigitte Berger
WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS
Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Coming of Age in Zephyr
Maude McDaniel
BOY'S LIFE
Robert R. McCammon

Love on Hold
Gail Regier
THE EXILED HEART
Kelly Cherry

The Way Up Is the Way Down
Thomas Goldwasser
A BETTER IDEA
Donald E. Petersen and John Hillkirk

Bungle in the Jungle
Lauren Weiner
MAMISTA
Len Deighton

Rat's Entertainment!
Mark Schaffer
NATIVE TONGUE
Carl Hiaasen

Life on the Brink
Robert F. Geary
THE ACCIDENT
David Plante

At Home With the Jameses
Linda Simon
THE JAMESES, A FAMILY NARRATIVE
R.W.B. Lewis

ART
John Baldessari: King of the Conceptual
Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto
Georges Seurat: Precocious Genius
Michael Gibson

CRAFT & DESIGN
Philosophy of Furniture
Karen S. Chambers

DANCE
Angelin Preljocaj: Choreographer of Two Cultures
Maya Wallach

FILM
Is There Intelligent Life in Robin Hood?
Richard Grenier

MUSIC
Fischer-Dieskau, Dusseldorf, and Robert Schumann
John C Tibbetts

PERSPECTIVES
The Microchip in the Museum
Eric Gibson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Black Beauty: Soviet Photographers Today
Cathy Young

POETRY
Brunel, the Black Prince, and Other Thoughts
Colin Honnor

THEATER
What About Don Juan?
Herb Greer

IMPACTS
O-Rings: The Ubiquitous Rubber Seals
David L. Burkhead

NATURE WALK
The Aspen Paradox
Henry Lansford

SCIENCE ESSAY
Even Giants Must Stand on Solid Ground
Walter E. Massey

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky: Biosphere Pioneer
George B. Kauffman

FOLK WISDOM
Witnessed but Unexplained: Four American Ghost Stories
Peggy Robbins

HERITAGE
Boom and Bust: New Mexico's Ghost Towns
Martha Oehmke Loustaunau

PEOPLES
Robin Hoods of the Puszta, Part Two: Hungarian Betyars: Rebels Against Hapsburg Absolutism
Agnes and Steven Vardy
Cremations in Varanasi
Pramesh Ratnakar