November 1996

Articles

• Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants?

  Comparing yesterday's immigration with today's, a historian is struck by the unprecedented nature of our present situation

  David M. Kennedy

• India's Bandit Queen

  A saga of revenge—and the making of a legend of "the real India"

  Mary Anne Weaver

• Remembering Ross Thomas

  He made crime fiction a genre of moral consolation in twenty-five award-winning books

  Tony Hiss

• The Price of Immigration

  Anonymous

• The New Economics of Immigration

  Affluent Americans gain; poor Americans lose

  George J. Borjas

• Broken Covenant?

  The time to revise the Ten Commandments,some say, draws nigh.

  Cullen Murphy

• Blowing Smoke

  Investigations of slang by the editor of the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang

  J. E. Lighter

• My Sex Mentors

  Barbara Stanwyck, meet Janet Reno

  Lynn Caraganis

• Horse Heaven Hills

  What made her go on? Another woman would stay in the house, would chop wood and wait, would make do until the storm had passed.

  Christina Adam

• Innocents Abroad

  Making Britain fun for a child can be fun for a parent, too.

• Big, Brilliant American Sound

  Garrick Ohlsson comes back to Chopinand rethinks his career as a pianist.

  Michael Ullman

• A Cartoon Elite

  The voguish idea that America is run by a small group of brainy people is a wild exaggeration, but it has its political uses.

  Nicholas Lemann

• 77 North Washington Street

• Letters

• The Almanac

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