COVER STORY
Something Bad: David Cronenberg
By Daniel Kraus
Plus: An interview with David Cronenberg and ten films by David Cronenberg

BOOK
The Blue Sky for American Fiction
An interview with Jonathan Lethem
By Alan DeNiro

ART
Francis Bacon: The King of Pain
By John W. Whitehead 

THEATER
The Eyes Have It
At the 1999 Humana Festival for New American Plays, the audience was being watched almost as much as it was watching.
By Lou Harry 

TOP FORTY HITS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"
By Paul Williams

LET IT BLEED
Frida Kahlo: Mexican Visionary
By David Dalton

NEW ARTIST
The Cornbelt Kid
An interview with novelist Tristan Egolf
By Greg Bottoms

MUSIC
Brian Epstein: The Fifth Beatle
By Jon Savage

MUSIC
Iggy and The Stooges
"Your pretty face is going to Hell... " and back.
By Lenny Kaye 

REVIEWS
Lester Bowie, the films of Robert Bresson, East Boy Grease and more