COVER STORY
The Perfect Interview
The Ali-Warhol tapes
By Victor Bockris 

MUSIC
Charles Mingus
A musician beyond category
By Nat Hentoff

FILM
The New Art Houses
By John Vanco

BOOK
His Wonders to Perform
Crime writer Chester Himes
By Melvin Van Peebles

NEW ARTIST
Like a Machine
The experimental pop of Olivia Tremor Control
By Greg Bottoms

TOP FORTY HITS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Winnie the Pooh
By Paul Williams

LET IT BLEED
I Film While Leaping from My Chair
D. A. Pennebaker on Bob Dylan, John Lennon, cinema vérité and Mary Poppins
By David Dalton

FILM
Rhythm Thief
David Mamet & the dangerous art of the con
By Daniel Kraus

ISSUES
Jonestown
By Robert Templer 

REVIEWS
Royal Trux, Mary Cassatt, James Ellroy and more