Waiting Edna O'Brien, Novelist and short story writer Edna O'Brien, whose work appears frequently in New Yorker, lives in Ireland. Her most recent novel is "House of Splendid Isolation," published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Carnival's Fascination With Hollywood SHIRLEY SLATER and HARRY BASCH, Slater and Basch travel as guests of the cruise lines. Cruise Views appears the first and third week of every month.
The Comeback Dictator Who Has Clinton Reeling Tad Szulc, Tad Szulc is the author of "Fidel: A Critical Portrait" (Avon). He is currently working on a biography of Pope John Paul II
Economy Keeps Improving, Why Aren't Clinton's Polls? Walter Russell Mead, Walter Russell Mead, a contributing editor to Opinion, is the author of "Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in Transition" (Houghton Mifflin)