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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Features
- MADONNA AND CHILD | 204
After morphing through 15 years of pop-cultural images, Madonna has become a legend of self-invention. Now, Ingrid Sischy discovers, with a 16-month-old daughter, a new album, and an unabashed desire for love, Madonna is grappling with the one identity she’s never truly exposed—her own. Photographs by Mario Testino - STEALING BEAUTY | 214
The costliest art theft in U.S. history remains unsolved. In an extraordinary story, Tom Mashberg tells how he found himself as a go-between for a petty thief, a master criminal, the F.B.I., and Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as it tried to recover $200 million worth of works by Vermeer, Rembrandt, and others looted in 1990 - STATE OF GRACE | 220
Alexis Jetter enters the tucked-away world of premier storyteller Grace Paley, whose latest book, Just as I Thought, reflects a lifetime on the barricades. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz - LIONS IN WINTER | 222
With the Winter Olympics approaching, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders captures the N.H.L.’s fastest and fiercest as they head to Nagano, and Mordecai Richler gives a fan’s notes - ANYTHING FOR OSCAR | 230
For almost 30 years, as queen of Paramount’s wardrobe department, Edith Head dressed everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Grace Kelly. As Amy Fine Collins finds, Head’s success was fueled by a talent for manipulation and for taking credit whenever possible - BITTER SPOILS | 238
The divorce of art-dealing scion Alec Wildenstein made headlines, but with new accusations that the $5 billion dynasty is tainted by deception and Nazi collaboration, the trouble has just begun. Suzanna Andrews mines the hidden history of art’s richest family, and George Rush gets the he-said, she-said of Alec’s split from Jocelyne. Portraits by Jonathan Becker
Columns
- DISTRICT OF CONTEMPT | 106
Watching a city literally rot away, Christopher Hitchens wonders when Washington, D.C., voters will finally return the insults of the fabulously corrupt mayor. Photograph by Harry Benson - LA BOHÈME | 128
As the Museum of the City of New York exhibits Berenice Abbott photographs of a freshly industrialized metropolis, A. M. Homes remembers a visual pioneer