May 1995
In This Issue
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Articles
The Puzzler
Not Yet Net
Tantalizing as the Internet may seem, for now the practical frustrations outweigh the cosmopolitan rewards
The God-Haunted Adulterer: Graham Greene Threw Himself Into Sin as if It Were Salvation
Hardhearted Reveries
Documents as Narrative
Evelyn Waugh
My Dog Skip
James McNeill Whistler
The Quest for Becket's Bones
Moo
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
It's All the Rage: Crime and Culture
Word Watch
The May Almanac
The Lay of the Language: The Decline of a Semantic Distinction, and What It Suggests About Linguistic Evolution
The Jerusalem Syndrome
Each year a number of travelers to Jerusalem become convinced that they themselves are the Messiah or the Virgin or King David or God or Satan
Global Fare
West Side Robbins Rumble
Prince Hamlet, and Meant to Be
Lessons of the Master
Art or Illness? A Filmmaker's Look at an Unsettling Talent
Confessions of Cloth and Community
Generation Swing
Sessions With the Big Brass
Messing With Texas
Cowboyography: How the Songwriter and Singer Ian Tyson Has Remade Cowboy Music
Riviera, Relaxed: Corsica Offers Much of the Mediterranean's Best, and Little of Its Worst
The Diversity Myth: America's Leading Export
The hortatory version of our history, in which America has long been a land of ethnic tolerance and multicultural harmony, leaves us with nothing useful to say to the failed states and riven polities of the post—Cold War world
The Geography of Military Recruitment
If You Sing Like That for Me
A Visit
Contributors
Colette and Truman Capote
Too Representative Government
Why is Congress held in such low esteem? One reason is that as it has become more truly representative, it has tried to solve more and more problems, including many that no one knows how to solve—thus raising expectations and frequently disappointing them. Quick-fix reforms aren’t likely to make the public any happier with the legislative branch
