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Spectacular Sounds from Sweden
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Terence Davies Takes on Edith Wharton
Dance
Balanchine's "Dances of the League of David"
Theater
Small and Large Acts of Violence
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Clinton's Legacy
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The Price of Marriage
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In This Issue
Letters to the Editor
INNOCENT BYSTANDER: Common Stock
by Cullen Murphy
Washington, D.C.: The Lost Islands by Richard Rubin
London: To the Manor Bought by Francis X. Rocca
Yakutsk, Russia: Esteemed Passengers! by Jeffrey Tayler
Columbus, Ohio: The Tiki Wars by Wayne Curtis
Belgrade: The Curse of Normalcy by Peter Maass
Bill Clinton and His Consequences
Contributions from James Fallows, P. J. O'Rourke, Pat Oliphant, Randall Kennedy, Francis Davis, Margaret Talbot, Glenn C. Loury, Roy Blount Jr., Carl M. Cannon, Wilfrid Sheed, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Tish Durkin, William Schneider, and Jack Beatty
The Bandit King and the Movie Star
Why did one of India's most colorful and ruthless terrorists kidnap one of India's most beloved actors?
by Abraham Verghese
Shock and Disbelief
Electroconvulsive therapy is safe and effective. An unusual assortment of activist groups is striving to suppress that message
by Daniel Smith
Walking Tour
A guide to the byways of a mythical place you've probably been to
by Ian Frazier
Belles Lettres A poem by Terese Svoboda [with audio]
Two Love Poems by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Joanna Trzeciak
Sister Godzilla A short story by Louise Erdrich
Web only: An Emissary of the Between-World
An Atlantic Unbound interview with Louise Erdrich.
TRAVEL: Las Vegas, 'Tis of Thee by Richard Todd
GARDENS: It's a Bug-Eat-Bug World by Thomas C. Cooper
SPORT: Sovereigns of the Sky by Stephen Bodio
The Wedding Merchants
Books on weddings reviewed by Caitlin Flanagan
"The First Hip White Person"
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams—The Early Years, 1903-1940 by Gary Giddins, reviewed by James Marcus
Off Its Rocker
Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark, reviewed by Thomas Mallon
NEW & NOTEWORTHY
David Kipen on Love, etc. by Julian Barnes
Christina Schwarz on Eclipse by John Banville
Peter Davison on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings
Benjamin Schwarz on Slavery, Secession, and Southern History
Jack Beatty on Everyday People by Stewart O'Nan
Stephen Amidon on The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
A Maverick Historian
The Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh, reviewed by Penelope Lively
The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Word Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff
Cover art by Bill Nelson.
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