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June 22, 1998

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From the Issue

Puzzle

8 x 10 Cryptic

By David Ellis Dickerson

Comment

The Myth of Summer

By Adam Gopnik

The Talk of the Town

Dept. of Remembering

By Tom Brokaw

Poems

Laszlo

By Frieda Hughes

Life and Letters

The Correspondent

By Bill Buford

Photograph

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By Robert Capa

American Summer

Troop Train

By Roger Angell

American Summer

At the Jewish Beach

By Hilton Als

Life and Letters

The Correspondent

By Martha Gellhorn

The Talk of the Town

The Creative Life

By Philip Hamburger

American Summer

Pool Buddy

By Susan Orlean

Poems

Couple on Park Bench

By Eamon Grennan

The Talk of the Town

Land of Make-Believe

By Paul Goldberger

A Critic at Large

In the Capital of Words

By David Remnick

Personal History

On the Road Again

By Jack Kerouac

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

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Briefly Noted

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Fiction

The Mud Below

By Annie Proulx

Photograph

The Mud Below

By Elaine Constantine

Personal History

On the Road Again

By Douglas Brinkley

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

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Briefly Noted

Solution

Answers to 8 x 10 Cryptic No. 47

By Trip Payne

Photograph

Before Air-Conditioning

By Arthur Leipzig

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

American Summer

Secrets of a Southern Porch

By Eugene Walter

Shouts & Murmurs

Notes On Camp

By Mark Leyner

Fiction

Save the Reaper

By Alice Munro

American Summer

Fly-Fishing for Doctors

By Ethan Canin

Annals of Authorship

Whose Movie Is It?

By Mark Singer

Photograph

The Correspondent

The Talk of the Town

Second Acts

By Rebecca Mead

The Talk of the Town

Dept. of Spin

By Edward Jay Epstein

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

American Summer

“Seascape #1”

By Tom Wesselmann

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