August 1997

Articles

• Malaria: Resurgence of a Deadly Disease

  Malaria kills roughly twice as many people worldwide as AIDS, drugs no longer work against some strains, and mosquitoes in diverse parts of the United States now carry the disease.

  Ellen Ruppel Shell

• Diamond Nuggets

  All the weekly baseball notes you'll ever really need

  Roy Blount Jr.

• Classical Appeal

  David Schiff

• Satan: Hijacker of a Planet

  Louise Erdrich

• The Real Thing

  Cullen Murphy

• Artful Restorations

  Marshall Jon Fisher

• Noisy Highways

  Philip Langdon

• Napoli Ever After

• Zoot!

  James Fallows

• The King Who Sent the Armada

  Francis X. Rocca

• The Roots of War

  Thomas Powers

• The Academy vs. the Humanities

  Frank Kermode

• 77 North Washington Street

• Letters

• The August Almanac

• Word Watch

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