Four Nights in Crown Heights
Closed mid-September 1991 · On stands late September 1991
The Front
The Meridian Index: October
World Series ticket resale prices, the going rate for a Halloween costume rental, the average price of a long-distance collect call, the retail price of a Guess campaign poster
The Essay
The Kitty Kelley Problem
A long essay on the celebrity tell-all as a genre — occasioned by the spring's Nancy Reagan biography — and what the reading public's appetite for it says about the presidency it just survived
The Foreign File
The Republics, Recognized
Washington moves toward formal recognition of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as independent states in the coup's unsettled aftermath
The Feature Well
President Street
Four nights of unrest in Crown Heights following the deaths of Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum
The Rigged Auction
The Salomon Brothers Treasury bond-rigging scandal breaks; Gutfreund, Meriwether, and Strauss resign
Seattle, Before
A photo essay from the clubs and rehearsal spaces of Seattle's underground rock scene, shot on assignment through the summer
The City
The Back
Books: A review of two new books on the decade's restaurant boom and the money financing it · Fashion: A preview of the fall runway collections, read as an economic forecast · Film: A dispatch on the Telluride Film Festival's opening weekend · Music: A review of Guns N' Roses' 'Use Your Illusion I' and 'II,' released this month, treated as a single overstuffed text