ANALYSIS
George Bush: What Kind of Leader?
Stephen J. Wayne
Japanese Philanthropy: A One-way Street?
Christian Herbst
Doing Business in Czechoslovakia
Connie L. Johnson

COMMENTARY
Teenage Sex: Why Saying 'No' Is Not Enough
Nancy Pearcey
The World Bank: Promoting Stagnation
Bryan T. Johnson
The New Odd Couple: Bush and Assad
Robert E. Hunter
Time to Look Beyond Gorbachev
Christopher Smart

MEDIA IN REVIEW
The Savings and Loan Scandal: The Untold Story
Glenn R. Simpson

 

FASHION
Theater of Fashion
David H. Ehrlich

FOOD
Arabian Delights
Celeste McCall

PROFILE
Robert Shaw
Herb Greer

TRENDS
The Personals: Sea of Love or Sea of Trouble?
Sherry Von Ohlsen

FEATURED BOOK: Harold Bloom's The Book of J
Introduction
Editor

The Human Form Divine
David Damrosch

The Ironical Poet's Pentateuch
James Ackerman

REVIEWS
Hope for Africa?
Peter J. Duignan
TROPICAL GANGSTERS
Robert Klitgarrd

The Pacific War's Detonator
Russ Braley
GOD'S SAMURAI: LEAD PILOT AT PEARL HARBOR
Gordon W. Prange, with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon

Civilization on Trial
Richard Stites
SOVIET CIVILIZATION
Andrei Sinyavsky, translated by Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov

Early Nabokov
Charles A. Moser
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Brian Boyd

President With an Agenda
Lee Edwards
AN AMERICAN LIFE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Ronald Reagan

Twentieth-Century Gothic
Marilyn Sibley Fries
LOST WEDDINGS
Maria Beig, translated from the German by Peter Blickle and Jaimy Gordon

Down in the Valley
James W. Tuttleton
AND THE ASS SAW THE ANGEL
Nick Cave

ART
Treasures of Islamic Art
Esin Atil
Glories of the Past: Art of Ancient Civilizations
Jason Edward Kaufman

DANCE
American Modern Dance in Mid-life Crisis
Maya Wallach
Georgian Dancers Tour the USA
Sid Smith

DESIGN
Revolutionizing Stained Glass
Gary Lee

FILM
Mad Max Does Hamlet
Cynthia Grenier
Is There Life After Film?
Scarlet Cheng

MUSIC
Astounding Moses und Aron
Lawrence O'Toole

PERSPECTIVES
Art in Advertising
Michael Gibson

POETRY
All That Life Is
David Sumner

TELEVISION
Sex, Violence, and Videotape in the USSR
Anna Lawton

THEATER
Manipulating Audiences
Herb Greer

NATURE WALK
Winter Frosting
Craig F. Bohren

SCIENCE ESSAY
A Dream Postponed
Edward Paget

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Peter Raven: Champion of the Chain of Life
Elizabeth J. Sherman

FOLK WISDOM
Mystical Circles of Power: The Plains Indian Shields
Ronald McCoy

HERITAGE
Walk the Roots: Creole Wood-carvers of Louisiana
Maurice M. Martinez

PEOPLES
A Traditional Pursuit: Fox Hunting in England
Bryan and Cherry Alexander
The Knappers
David Lampe
Mysticism in Iceland
Sandra A. Thomson and Kristin H. Petursdottir