Read at the Desk
Closed mid-October 1998 · On stands late October 1998
The Front
The Fisher Award
Susan L. Taylor becomes the first Black woman to win the Magazine Publishers of America's Fisher Award — a Front trade note
The String, By the Register
Madonna's Kabbalah Centre affiliation becomes public; the item mocks the red string as credit-card mysticism on a famous wrist, the joke aimed at the transaction rather than the seeker
The Essay
Read at the Desk
The Starr Report is released and read at desks off office screens within the hour; what happens to a document's gravity when there is no morning paper to wait for
The Foreign File
Caracas, Counting Votes
A stringer's early dispatch on a candidate the desk is still deciding how seriously to take
The Feature Well
The Publicist's Autumn
A season profile of a mid-tier Washington public-affairs shop navigating the fall political calendar ahead of the midterms
The City
Subject: A survey of the fall gallery openings and the collectors who skipped them for August
The Back
Television: , · Books: A review of a new political memoir · Film: Two October releases, briefly noted