Conversation Fran Lebowitz by Suzanne O'Malley. She's 28, she never finished high school and she writes off the top of her head for an audience that hates to read. Meet Fran Lebowitz, but don't say we didn't warn you. Profile "A Brush With the Law" by Randall Sullivan.

New York City used to be the perfect place to pull off an art heist, because most cops couldn't tell a Van Gogh from a Vandyke. Then hippie artist Robert Volpe joined the force. Features "Brave New Male" by Haward Rheingold.

Radical biologists are predicting interchangeable penises and mandatory castration by the year 2000. Guess where that leaves you and me? "The Honeymooners" by Mark Christensen.

Does a man have the right to rape his wife? Thanks to John and Greta Rideout, nobody will ever know. "My Father's Affair with Esther Williams" by Norman Lock.

Model Monique Cardin (porn queen) photographed by R. Scott Hooper.

Photos by S. Carter, Jeff Dunas and Jean-Pierre Bourgeois.