March 1999 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Women | Memoirs | Abroad | Outsiders | General | Biography Women Pamela Norris Women Can Do It, Too The World According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own By Cullen Murphy Memoirs Anne Applebaum Surviving the Polish Horror The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 By Wladyslaw Szpilman The Ice Road By Stefan Waydenfeld Abroad Bryan Appleyard How They All Admired Us Before We Fell Apart Voltaire's Coconuts: Or Anglomania in Europe By Ian Buruma Outsiders Gavin Esler American Underside Cold New World By William Finnegan D J Taylor Told by a Dog King: A Street Story By John Berger LR General Anthony Holden Glimpse of Intelligence Too Vast to Apprehend Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human By Harold Bloom Biography Donald Rayfield An Explanation at Last for his Tragic End Pushkin's Button By Serena Vitale (Translated by Ann Goldstein and Jon Rothschild)
Pamela Norris Women Can Do It, Too The World According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own By Cullen Murphy
Anne Applebaum Surviving the Polish Horror The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 By Wladyslaw Szpilman The Ice Road By Stefan Waydenfeld
Bryan Appleyard How They All Admired Us Before We Fell Apart Voltaire's Coconuts: Or Anglomania in Europe By Ian Buruma
Anthony Holden Glimpse of Intelligence Too Vast to Apprehend Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human By Harold Bloom
Donald Rayfield An Explanation at Last for his Tragic End Pushkin's Button By Serena Vitale (Translated by Ann Goldstein and Jon Rothschild)
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