The End of History
Closed mid-April 1992 · On stands late April 1992
The Front
Index of the Quarter
Numbers of the spring lists — weeks on the bestseller charts, argument books published, rebuttals commissioned
The Essay
The End of History
Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man, published this year by Free Press, and the argument's reception a year after the essay that preceded it
The Foreign File
The Stringer's Notebook
A season of dispatches assembled into a short, discursive column
The Feature Well
The Landlord's Ledger
A profile of a mid-size property manager navigating the spring rent rolls in a Sun Belt apartment market
The City
Subject: A morning at a Village stoop sale, the spring circuit
The Back
Books: A roundup of the year's bestselling political nonfiction — five titles in one paragraph each, Rush Limbaugh's The Way Things Ought to Be, now 24 weeks on the list, among them, unsigned, no author interview · Art: A Texas museum's spring loan show, the crowds arriving by chartered bus from three states · Film: The season's pictures, briefly, and a leading man's second act as a producer with his own money on the table