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The New Yorker Full Magazine – August 23 & 30, 1999 – Winston Smith Cover (Good Condition)
This double issue of The New Yorker, dated August 23 & 30, 1999, features the striking cover illustration “America, America” by Winston Smith. A late-summer edition that captures the magazine’s hallmark mix of wit, intellect, and global insight, this issue explores adventure, politics, journalism, and human endurance through exceptional storytelling and illustration.
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Table of Contents
THE MAIL 11
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN 12
THE TALK OF THE TOWN 18
Comment — Michael Specter on Russia’s political roulette
Et cetera — England’s eclipse fever; a shiksa goddess
LETTER FROM MAURITANIA — The Truck — Ryszard Kapuscinski 93
Stranded in the Sahara
SHOUTS & MURMURS — Endurance — Bruce McCall 100
OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS — Lions and Tigers and Bears — Bill Buford 105
The dark, eerie beauty of Central Park at night
LETTER FROM EAST AFRICA — The Man Who Was Eaten Alive — George Plimpton 114
When animals behave badly in the bush
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM — School for Survival — Elizabeth Rubin 128
An exercise in how not to get killed
PERSONAL HISTORY — Sailing Into the Sublime — Jonathan Raban 140
The Inside Passage—a northern highway as old as history
ADVENTURE — Misadventure — Alastair Reid 144
OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS — Mark Singer 148
Adventure as Executive Therapy
The adrenaline-fuelled dangers of cornmeal-crusted salmon
ADVENTURE — Under Water — Anne Fadiman 150
ADVENTURE — Addicted to Flesh — Norman Lewis 154
PROFILE — Swimming with Sharks — Charles Sprawson 160
A marathon swimmer takes on the world’s most treacherous waters
ADVENTURE — Black Sea Blues — William Finnegan 164
A REPORTER AT LARGE — Spies in the House of Faith — Isabel Hilton 174
The Dalai Lama’s daring plot to trick the Chinese
ADVENTURE — Rope Burn — Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 194
The Critics
Books — Discovering the End of the Earth — John Banville 196
Briefly Noted 198
Music — Alex Ross 198
Musical Events — The Salzburg Festival — David Denby 200
The Current Cinema — “The Sixth Sense,” “Dick” — David Denby 202
Poems
“The Purification of Space for Dorothy” — Liliana Ursu 158
“Screened Porch” — Louise Glück 192
CROSSWORD — 8 x 10 Cryptic No. 101 203
THE BACK PAGE — Achievement Adventuring — Ruben Bolling 204
Cover: America, America by Winston Smith
Contributing Artists: Robert Mankoff, Whitney Darrow Jr., Sam Gross, David Sipress, Barbara Smaller, Gahan Wilson, William Haefeli, J. C. Duffy, Tom Cheney, Leo Cullum, Robert Weber, Frank Cotham, Arnie Levin, Jack Ziegler, Mick Stevens, Roz Chast, Michael Maslin, Marisa Acocella, Peter Steiner, Christopher Weyant, Edward Koren, George Booth, Danny Shanahan, Charles Barsotti, Michael Crawford, Victoria Roberts, Kim Warp, Donald Reilly, Alex Gregory, Bruce Eric Kaplan, P. C. Vey
A richly packed double issue that blends humor, global reporting, and literary excellence—an ideal addition for any New Yorker collector or reader seeking late 20th-century insight and artistry.