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ID Code Z1053.3T0080001
Title The New Yorker July 31, 1995
Volume
Author
Publisher The New Yorker Magazine
Place of Publication New York
Publication Date 1995/07/31
Language 英語 eng
Pages 88
Size (cm) 28
ISSN 0028-792X
TOC COMMENT
The Nuclear Jubilee Hendrik Herzberg 6
Were Hiroshima's ruins a vaccination mark?
IN THE MAIL 8
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN 10
THE TALK OF THE TOWN 26
Lew Wasserman, Hollywood's invisible man; guerrilla bungee jumpers; Gentleman Floyd; itching for a fight; etc.
DEPARTMENTS
Annals of Low The Thin White Line Fredric Dannen 30
The government is fighting a new drug war against Colombia's cartel bosses - and the American lawyers who defended them.
Personal History I Say This Emily Hahn 35
A long time ago, when Zaire was called the Congo and it wasn't always easy to get rid of a husband.
LETTER FROM HIROSHIMA Did the Bomb End the War? Murray Sayle 40
Hiroshima was bombed to stop a fanatical empire that would have wasted a million more American lives before it surrendered. At least, that was the official line.
FROM THE ARCHIVES The Day the Bomb Fell John Hersey 65
An except from "Hiroshima," which first appeared in this magazine, in 1946. Afterword by Roger Angell.
FICTION "The Zoo Attack" Haruki Murakami 68
In Manchuria, at the end of the war.
THE CRITICS
Books C.D.B. Bryan's "Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind" James Wolcott 75
Cge Gyevara's "The Motorcycle Diaries" Paul Berman 78
Recommended Reading 79
The Current Cinema "Kids," Wild Reeds" Terrence Rafferty 80
Jazz Three generations of swingers Whitney Balliett 83
Musical Events Movie music Paul Griffiths 86
POEMS
"The dark Hole" Virginia Hamilton Adair 48
"Ukiyo-e" John Burnside 59
SHOUTS & MURMURS Name Droppings Hart Seely 88
COVER Under the Cloud, by Lorenzo Mattotti
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