ANALYSIS
The Future of Iraq and the Middle East
Peter Sluglett
India: A Bubbling Political Pot
Edwin Hirschmann
The Soviet Union Needs a Social Democratic Party: An Interview With Fyodor Burlatsky
Gary Lee

COMMENTARY
The Need for New Solutions
Thomas P. O'Brien and Steven M. Friedman
The Bush Budget: Many Missed Opportunitites
Stuart Butler

FORUM
What Now for the Middle East?

MEDIA IN REVIEW
The Patriot and SDI: Changing Images
Stephen Aubin

 

FAMILY
Rediscovering Motherhood
Nancy Pearcey

INTERIORS
The Inside Story
Alexandra Stuart

PASTIMES
Designer Roses for Mother's Day
Karen Karvonen

PERSONALITY
Pandemonium in Paradise
John C. Tibbetts

TRENDS
Fifties Retro Restaurants
Celeste McCall

FEATURED BOOK: Charles Johnson's Middle Passage
Introduction
Editor

Across the Great Chasm
Joseph Coates

Slave Mutiny With a Difference
Bernard W. Bell

Whose Middle Passage?
Charles R. Larson

Philosopher, Novelist, Patriot
Gary Lee

REVIEWS
Attitude, Achievement, and Health
Audrey DeLaMartre
LEARNED OPTIMISM
Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D.
THE SELF-HEALING PERSONALITY
Howard S. Friedman, Ph.D.

Out of the Minds of Babes
Gregory Wolfe
THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF CHILDREN
Robert Coles

Oil Slick
Milton R. Copulos
THE PRIZE: THE EPIC QUEST FOR OIL, MONEY, AND POWER
Daniel Yergin

The Question of Quotas
Charles J. Sykes
ILLIBERAL EDUCATION
Dinesh D'Souza

A Daring Deception
Audrey C. Foote
MARY DIANA DODS
Bettly T. Bennett

Among the Yanomama
Clay Robarchek
INTO THE HEART
Kenneth Good with David Chanoff

The Man Who Knew Too Little
Thomas DePietro
THE MACGUFFIN
Stanley Elkin

The Price of Glory
Martin Sieff
SOMETHING TO DIE FOR
James Webb

All That Glitters
Cynthia Grenier
THE POWER AND THE GLITTER
Ronald Brownstein

ART
The Secret Art Collection in Nashville
Eric Gibson

CRAFT & DESIGN
Collecting the Popular and the Vernacular
Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto

DANCE
The Wright Stuff: Peter Wright and the Birmingham Royal Ballet
Kathrine Sorley Walker

FILM
The Burden of Freedom
Marina Zvereva
New Look Berlinale
Louis Kaplan and Jeannine Fiedler

MUSIC
Orpheus as Elvis
Philip Kennicott

PERSPECTIVES
Composition at the Crossroads
David Eaton

PHOTOGRAPHY
Eikoh Hosoe: Photographer of the Avant-Garde
Darwin Marable

THEATER
Theater as Supermarket
Herb Greer
Black Family Anguish
Michael Marshall

NATURE WALK
Enchanted Rings
George Knaphus and Lois H. Tiffany

SCIENCE ESSAY
Can Technology Change Africa's Climate?
Michael H. Glantz

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Rita Colwell: Lady With a Mission
Joan Kostick Andrews

FOLK WISDOM
They Look With Two Eyes: Twins in Mafa Society
Jose C.M. van Santen

HERITAGE
Songs of Passion: The Music of Mexican Americans
George H. Lewis

PEOPLES
Garlanding the Well: Dressing Village Wells in Britain's Peak District
Herb Greer
Where David Reigned: The Debate Over Jewish Identity in Israel
Nechemia Meyers