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1998 Stories by Jelena Petrovic

• Remain in Light

  published November 18, 1998

  The quicker picker-upper: Zenon Dance Company's Greg Waletski and Wynn Fricke. More >>

• Susan Minot: Evening

  published November 4, 1998

  Susan Minot Evening Knopf WITH ROBERT ALTMAN'S The Player on my mind lately, I have... More >>

• The Conversation

  published October 28, 1998

  IT IS A LEADING irony of the contemporary dance world that some of the most innovative American choreographers have found success in Europe... More >>

• Clash of the Titans

  published October 21, 1998

  Contact Improv--it's not just for aesthetes anymore: Minneapolis dance talent Chris Aiken and friends. More >>

• The Jungle Book

  published October 21, 1998

  Keeping it real: Pauline Melville's debut novel holds the magical realism in check. More >>

• Vicki Mackenzie: Cave in the Snow

  published October 14, 1998

  Vicki Mackenzie Cave in the Snow Bloomsbury IN RECENT YEARS, we've been treated to Little... More >>

• Alternative Energy

  published October 14, 1998

  Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars: Wynn Fricke's Borrowed Bones Dance Theatre. More >>

• THOMAS MCGRATH

  published September 9, 1998

  Destroy the dictionaries More >>

• South Pacific

  published June 17, 1998

  Your marriage is on the rocks. So what do you do to revitalize relations with your wife? More >>

• César Aira

  published June 10, 1998

  César Aira The Hare Serpent's Tail "THE BORGES OF the Pampas," is the boast that adorns the... More >>

• The Last War

  published June 3, 1998

  In two story collections, Josip Novakovich and Ken Kalfus offer dispatches from the shifting front lines of human discord More >>

• Fiction is Stranger than Fiction

  published April 29, 1998

  Two historical figures, filmmaker F.W. Murnau and geneticist Gregor Mendel, step out of the past into two new novels More >>

• Continental Divide

  published April 15, 1998

  Amid all the hubbub of the 50th anniversary of its independence, a meritorious but relatively low-profile lot caught the edge of the light:... More >>

• Desert Solitaire

  published April 8, 1998

  Quarantine, Jim Crace's retelling of Jesus's 40 days in the desert, is to the Bible what Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is to... More >>

• The Pope, Marx, and Houdini

  published April 1, 1998

  From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs: Everett Dance Theatre performs Body of Work at the Walker Art Center More >>

• Bang a Gong!

  published March 25, 1998

  The Bang on a Can All-Stars take new music out of the rarefied realm of half-empty concert halls. More >>

• Money for Nothing

  published March 18, 1998

  It's a thankless part-time job, thinking about funding for your art. More >>

• World Gone Wrong

  published March 18, 1998

  Wasted apparitions haunt the house in The Dead Souls, a performance piece by the Montreal company Carbone 14. More >>

• Victor Pelevin The Life of Insects

  published February 25, 1998

  Victor Pelevin The Life of Insects Farrar, Straus, Giroux THERE IS A dark, brilliant moment in... More >>

• Bernardo Atxaga: The Lone Man

  published February 11, 1998

  Bernardo Atxaga The Lone Man Havrill Press LONDON'S HAVRILL Press, which publishes excellent... More >>

• Pomp and Circumstance

  published February 4, 1998

  Geraldine McMillian sings the heartbreak of an Ethiopian slave girl in the Minnesota Opera's lavish production of Aida More >>

• Pants On Fire

  published January 14, 1998

  An Honorary Rockette?: Actor Daniel MacIvor and Da Da Kamera kick theatrical convention in Here Lies Henry. More >>

• Flaming Filmmaker

  published January 7, 1998

  IT'S TEMPTING TO compare the late filmmaker Jack Smith to Vincent Van Gogh, for reasons that have nothing to do with artistic merit (which... More >>