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Vol. 3, Number 2 Spring 1999

Spring 1999 - Contents


Letter from the Editor by Joey Fishkin
A Riot of Egomania
reviewed by Ty Hudson
review of A Man in Full
book by Tom Wolfe
A Heavier Amis
reviewed by Nathaniel Rich
review of Heavy Water
book by Martin Amis
Get ALife!
reviewed by Joshua Wright
review of Silicon Second Nature
book by Stefan Helmreich
Organic Reading
reviewed by Hilary Kaplan
review of On Good Land
book by Michael Ableman
Wait Till Next Year
reviewed by Larry Schooler
review of Wait Till Next Year
Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Lives of Lovers
reviewed by Chong-Hao Fu
review of Identity
book by Milan Kundera
Addressing Wounds
reviewed by Eli Kintisch
review of The Doctor Stories
book by Richard Selzer
A New Hour for Woolf
reviewed by Sarah Van der Laan
review of The Hours
book by Sarah Van der Laan
Putting It All In
reviewed by Steven Paulikas
review of All of Us
book by Raymond Carver
An Education for Another Time
reviewed by Caroline Marvin
review of An Education for Our Time
book by Josiah Bunting III
The Great Wall of the West
reviewed by Jennifer Wang
review of The Chan's Great Continent
book by Jonathan Spence
Mapless in Manhattan
reviewed by Margaret Miller
review of CityTripping
Tom Dolby
Books in Brief (1/3): Writing a Plague
reviewed by Margaux Wexberg
review of Tea
D. A. Powell
Books in Brief (2/3): Physics as Self-Help
reviewed by Bethany Lacina
review of Seven Life Lessons of Chaos
John Briggs, F. David Peat
Books in Brief (3/3): Back in the USSR
reviewed by Geoffrey Chepiga
review of A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories
Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield (Translator)



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