Forty-Two Million
Closed mid-May 1997 · On stands late May 1997
The Front
The Category Gets Coarser
Maxim launches in the US; the piece that runs treats it as a symptom of the men's-magazine category broadly rather than reckoning with the magazine on its own terms
The Meridian Index: June
Graduation-week hotel rates in college towns nationwide, the price of a lakefront cabin rental for the Fourth, minor-league ballpark attendance on the season's first warm Saturday
The Essay
The Night Ellen Came Out
The lead character of a network sitcom comes out before roughly 42 million viewers; what a fictional disclosure changes that a real one, on a magazine cover, has not
The Foreign File
The Landslide
Tony Blair's Labour Party wins a landslide general election victory, ending eighteen years of Conservative government
The Feature Well
The City
The Marquee Returns
The New Amsterdam Theatre reopens after Disney's restoration, read as either a civic asset recovered or a corporate annexation of a public block
A Table on Spring Street
Keith McNally opens Balthazar in SoHo
The Pulitzer for an Uptown Premiere
Wynton Marsalis wins the Pulitzer Prize for Music for 'Blood on the Fields,' pegged to its Jazz at Lincoln Center premiere
The Back
The Cover Time Already Ran
Ellen DeGeneres comes out the same week as her character; Time's 'Yep, I'm Gay' cover runs first
A Silence in Concord
Michael Dorris dies by suicide in Concord, New Hampshire
Books
A review of the spring's fiction in translation