December 1985 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Biography | New York | Art Biography Christopher Hitchens Girlish and Glutinous The Joan Kennedy Story By Marcia Chellis Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe By Anthony Summers LR New York Jonathan Keates Noo Yoik, Noo Yoik Occasional Prose By Mary McCarthy New York: An Anthology By Mike Marquesee & Bill Harris LR Rupert Christiansen Up in the Gods Magnificence: Onstage at the Met By Robert Jacobson LR Art John Wells Tickets on the Wall Kurt Schwitters By John Elderfield LR
Christopher Hitchens Girlish and Glutinous The Joan Kennedy Story By Marcia Chellis Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe By Anthony Summers LR
Jonathan Keates Noo Yoik, Noo Yoik Occasional Prose By Mary McCarthy New York: An Anthology By Mike Marquesee & Bill Harris LR
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