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New York: Sentimental Journeys

January 17, 1991 issue

Letter

Jim Sleeper

‘Sentimental Journeys’

March 7, 1991 issue

Letter from ‘Manhattan’

The characters in Manhattan and Annie Hall and Interiors are, with one exception, presented as adults, but their concerns and conversations are those of clever children acting out a yearbook fantasy of adult life.

Manhattan

directed by Woody Allen

Interiors

directed by Woody Allen

Annie Hall

directed by Woody Allen

August 16, 1979 issue

Letter

John Romano

They’ll Take Manhattan

October 11, 1979 issue

Letter

Randolph D. Pope

They’ll Take Manhattan

October 11, 1979 issue

Letter

Roger Hurwitz

They’ll Take Manhattan

October 11, 1979 issue

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On Robert Silvers

Nineteen writers remember The New York Review’s editor.

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California Notes

On covering the Patty Hearst trial in San Francisco, 1976

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The Deferential Spirit

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Obama: In the Irony-Free Zone

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A Fateful Election

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On Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)

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In Cheney’s Shadow

November 2, 2006 issue

Cheney: The Fatal Touch

A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs

by Theodore Draper

Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror

by Richard A. Clarke

Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence

by Admiral Stansfield Turner

Disarming Iraq

by Hans Blix

The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money

by Dan Briody

My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope

by L. Paul Bremer III, with Malcolm McConnell

Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life

by Mary Cheney

The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11

by Ron Suskind

Plan of Attack

by Bob Woodward

The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Most Powerful Vice President in American History

by John Nichols

Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet

by James Mann

Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, with Supplemental, Minority, and Additional Views

31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today

by Barry Werth

Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror

by Mark Danner

Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush

by John W. Dean

Years of Renewal

by Henry Kissinger

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Letter

Paul Starobin

In Cheney’s Shadow

November 2, 2006 issue

The Terri Schiavo Case: An Exchange

August 11, 2005 issue

The Case of Theresa Schiavo

June 9, 2005 issue

Politics in the ‘New Normal’ America

October 21, 2004 issue

Mr. Bush & the Divine

Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages

by Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

November 6, 2003 issue

Fixed Opinions, or The Hinge of History

January 16, 2003 issue

Praying in Public

March 29, 2001 issue

An Open Letter to the President

December 21, 2000 issue

God’s Country

November 2, 2000 issue

‘The Day Was Hot and Still …’

Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan

by Edmund Morris

November 4, 1999 issue

Uncovered Washington

Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story

by Michael Isikoff

Active Faith: How ChristiansAre Changing the Soul of American Politics

by Ralph Reed

Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline

by Robert H. Bork

June 24, 1999 issue

Clinton Agonistes

The Clinton impeachment was a situation in which a handful of people with something to gain (a book contract, a sinecure as a network “analyst,” or the justification of a failure to get either of the Clintons on Whitewater), managed to harness this phenomenon and ride it.

Referral to the United States House of Representatives pursuant to Title 28, United States Code, å¤595(c)

Submitted by the Office of the Independent Counsel

October 22, 1998 issue

Irrational Numbers

October 8, 1998 issue