DEATH OF THE DREAM
Nineteen Sixty-Eight
It was the best of times, the worst of times... The legacy of this schizophrenic year.
By Jules Witcover
Plus: '68 Remembered: Interviews with Pat Buchanan, Bobby Seale, Curtis Gans, Alfred Corn and Pete Seeger

1968: The Beatles Begin Breaking Up
By John W. Whitehead

Assassination Raga
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti 

FIRST WORK
"The Broom of the System" and David Foster Wallace's Wacky World
By Johan Conrod 

MUSIC
That's Mr. Reed to You
The story of Uncle Lou
By Richard Abowitz 

ART
Square By Square
Chuck Close & his digital domain
By Chad Weinard 

LET IT BLEED
How Rock 'n' Roll Saved Our Lives
Or I knew Linda McCartney before she became a vegetarian!
By David Dalton

NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
New albums reviewed
By Bret Booth 

FILM
The "Mean Streets" Experience
By Brian Turley 

HOT SPOT
Berkeley's Radical Roots
By Anne Fortune Wickers 

BOOK
Lunch With Kesey
By Jayson Whitehead 

REVIEWS
The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, Woody Allen, Mark Rothko, and more