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What happened on June 14, 1998

BOOKS

  • The Storm, By Wendell Berry

  • Mr. Potato Head  By Richard Eder

  • Reading L.a.

  • All Critics Are Mortal By Alfred Kazin, \o7 Alfred Kazin was the author of numerous books, including "Writing Was Everything," from which this essay was reprinted with the kind permission of Harvard University Press. Kazin died June 5 on his 83rd birthday\f7

  • Alfred Kazin: The Good Enemy By Vivian Gornick, \o7 Vivian Gornick is author of several books, including "Fierce Attachments" and "The End of the Novel of Love."\f7

  • Alfred Kazin: The Good Enemy By James Atlas, \o7 James Atlas is a staff writer for The New Yorker\f7

  • Inside Out  By Ben Gerson, \o7 Ben Gerson, an editor at Fortune magazine, is former editor-in-chief of the National Law Journal\f7

  • A Hero of Our Time  By Jack Nelson, \o7 Jack Nelson is the chief Washington correspondent for The Times. In the 1960s, he was the paper's Atlanta bureau chief and covered the civil rights movement\f7

  • Telling Tales  By Peter Green, \o7 Peter Green is the author of "Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age" and is visiting professor of history at the University of Iowa\f7

  • Classics For Kids By Doris Orgel, \o7 Doris Orgel is the author of numerous children's books. Her latest, "We Goddesses: Athena, Aphrodite, Hera," will be published by Dorling Kindersley next year. Her essay is provided exclusively to The Times by The Five Owls, a monthly magazine that encourages literacy and reading among young people. For a copy of The Five Owls, send $1 for postage and handling to The Five Owls, 2004 Sheridan Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN 55405\f7

  • To the Republic, By Horace

  • Balancing Act  By Irene Oppenheim, \o7 Irene Oppenheim is an adjunct professor of humanities at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College and the artistic director of the Firehouse Theater Company\f7

  • Glory Days  By Jonathan Kirsch, \o7 Jonathan Kirsch is the author of "The Harlot by the Side of the Road" and the forthcoming "Moses: A Life" (Ballantine). He is a contributing writer to Book Review\f7

  • Musical Interlude  By David Thomson, \o7 David Thomson is the author of "Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts."\f7

  • Under Analysis  By Michael Frank, \o7 Michael Frank is a contributing writer to Book Review\f7

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  • Classics For Kids

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  • Kazin: Debate About Topics That Matter By Thomas Bender, \o7 Thomas Bender, who teaches history at New York University, is the author of "New York Intellect" and "Intellect and Public Life."\f7

  • Reclaiming 'Everyone's Downtown'  By Joel Kotkin, \o7 Joel Kotkin, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a senior fellow at the Pepperdine Institute for Public Policy and a research fellow at the Reason Foundation\f7

  • The Loss of Humanity in 'Hate Crime' By Martin E. Marty, \o7 Martin E. Marty is a professor of the history of religion at the University of Chicago and senior editor of the Christian Century magazine. He directs the Public Religion Project, a nonprofit group analyzing the role of religion in public life\f7

  • Can Any War Be Overreported? By William Prochnau, \o7 William Prochnau, a former reporter for the Washington Post, is author of "Once Upon a Distant War: Young War Correspondents & Their Early Vietnam Battles."\f7

  • An African Tradition Holds the Key By George B.N. Ayittey, \o7 George B.N. Ayittey, an associate professor of economics at American University and president of the Free Africa Foundation, is the author of "Africa Betrayed" and "Africa in Chaos."\f7

  • The Army Reasserting Its Power to Intimidate By Victor Perera, \o7 Victor Perera is the author of "Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy" and "The Cross and the Pear Tree: A Sephardic Journey."\f7

  • Julian Bond  By Kay Mills, \o7 Kay Mills is author of "Something Better for My Children: The History and People of Head Start." She interviewed Julian Bond at his American University office\f7

  • Wrong Turn on Charter

  • Happy Neighbors, Happy Hikers

  • A Day of Pleas and Pork

  • Nuclear Deterrence Is a Western Illusion  By Edward M. Luttwak, \o7 Edward M. Luttwak is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington\f7

  • End California's Split Ticket  By Brooks Firestone, \o7 Republican Assemblyman Brooks Firestone represents parts of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties\f7

  • Cousins at War Need Elders' Intervention  By John Rude, \o7 John Rude, an educational consultant in Salem, Ore., was a Peace Corps volunteer in Eritrea before the country's independence. He monitored the Ethiopian elections in 1992 and has led tours to Eritrea\f7

  • Crusade Against the Disciples of Hate  By John Lewis, \o7 Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a veteran civil rights leader, is the author of "Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement" (Simon & Schuster, 1998)\f7

  • The Hole in the Drive to Ban Social Promotion in School By Richard Rothstein, \o7 Richard Rothstein is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute\f7

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