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By Mike Davis 12:00am

Alas, Poor Qisuk-Digging Up a Museum’s Past

Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity , by David Hurst Thomas. Basic Books, 326 pages, $25.

A Gathering of Wonders: Behind the Scenes at the American Museum of Natural History , by Joseph Wallace. St. Martin’s Press, 288 pages, $24.95.

Museums are theft.

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By Mike Davis 1/18/99 12:00am

Repent! The End Is Near-And Much Worse This Time!

The End of the World , edited by Lewis Lapham. Thomas Dunne-St. Martin’s Press, 297 pages, $24.95.

As the countdown continues to that great Christian conceit, the third millennium, Lewis Lapham offers readers a portable guide to Last Things, from Gilgamesh (the Flood) to Bill Gates (the Anti-Christ?). In a devoutly terminalist nation, where Read More