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Editorial Going with the grain
Lucy Peltz The pleasure of the book	Extra-illustration, an 18th-century fashion
Margaret Campbell Affie cauld and affie lonely	Tuberculosis shelters in Britain 1900 -1930
Flora Samuel A confession of faith in stone	Carl Gustav Jung's tower at Bollingen
Hildi Hawkins Keeping the Cold War cold	Finland, America and the Design in Scandinavia exhibition 1954 -1957 other things
Jonathan Bell Cut'n'paste	Destroy: Punk Graphic Design in Britain Royal Festival Hall, London 6 February - 16 March 1998
Flora Samuel Thought, word and deed	Shaker: The Art of Craftsmanship Barbican Art Gallery, London 22 January - 26 April 1998
Martin Amis Real men	Extract from the novel 'God's Dice'
Rosemary Hill A painter's progress	Jenny Uglow Hogarth: A Life and a World Faber & Faber, London
Christopher Mount Life's little luxuries	Finnish Modern Design Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities, 1930-1997 The Bard Graduate Center, New York 27 February - 14 June 1998
Augusto Monterroso The dinosaur	A very short story
Steve Baker Mon velo	Cycling, writing, dreaming
Carol Tulloch Into focus	Photos and Phantasms: Harry Johnston's Photographs of the Caribbean (1908-9) The Royal Geographical Society, London 3 -13 March 1998
Georges Perec On the difficulty of imagining an ideal city	Poem from Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
Liz Boggis identity::crisis	powerhouse::uk Horseguards Parade, London 8 -16 April 1998
Pas car Elocution rhyme
Andrew Bolton Glocal heroes	Asia City Photographer's Gallery, London 3 April - 16 May 1998
Anne Aurasmaa Here be monsters	'Myths and Monsters' Natural History Museum, London 5 April - 13 September 1998 - 'Lost Sense' Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 14 February - 20 September 1998
Edmund de Waal Leaving home	A potter's goodbye to the things he makes
Virginia Woolf Here comes the 19th century	Extract from the novel Orlando
Philip Nobel New car, New York	The 1998 New York International Auto Show Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York, 11 -19 April 1998
Victoria Kelley Into the blue	The beauty of pregnancy testing kits
usan Howe Scandiwegianism	IKEA's PS range and the Nordic design tradition
Rosemary Hill Straitlaced stories	Marianne Thesander The Feminine Ideal Reaktion Books, London - Beatrice Fontanel Support and Seduction: A History of Bras and Corsets Abrams Publishers, New York
Bettina Schurkamp Sizing up	Rem Koolhaas S, M, L, XL Taschen Publishers, Cologne
Peter Davidson The Englishman's catechism	Poem
Lisa Hirst Shooting fashion	Jurgen Teller The Photographer's Gallery, London 29 May - 25 July 1998 - Jurgen Teller - Edited and designed by Cornel Windlin Taschen Publishers, Cologne
Hans Christian Andersen The bottle	A biography
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