After the Wall: Letters from Berlin
Closed mid-November 1989 · On stands late November 1989
The Front
Index of 1989
Year-end ephemera — a season's stray numbers, not news
On Language
'perestroika' in American usage, five years on
The Essay
On Fukuyama's 'End of History?'
Argues it is too soon and too American in perspective
The Foreign File
Berlin Dispatch
Filed from the opening of the Wall, Nov 9
Bonn Analysis
Kohl and the politics of reunification, considered from a distance
The Feature Well
The Sultan's Birthday, Revisited
A profile of Malcolm Forbes and the economics of a fortune spent entirely on being seen spending it, keyed to the summer's Tangier extravagance
The Landlords
Well feature added by Claude 2026-07-21 per Jan's ruling (subject choice is Claude's job); anti-bias reasoning in meridian-print/WORKPLAN.md §Wave 4. Jan may veto.
After Webster
Well feature added by Claude 2026-07-21 per Jan's ruling; anti-bias reasoning in meridian-print/WORKPLAN.md §Wave 4. Jan may veto.
The City
The Coalition
Dinkins's election by a 47,000-vote margin, and the Hawkins summer that shaped it
The Won War
The clean cars and the still-dirty stations — the MTA's graffiti campaign, six months on
The Back
Books: Essay occasioned by Mary McCarthy's death in October — the quarrels, the exactness, the Hellman suit, the late corpus · Art: The National Gallery's East Building rehang, and what a decade of acquisitions added up to · Film: Do the Right Thing, six months on, in retrospect