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Contents: Ising Model and N = 2 Supersymmetric Theories (S Cecotti & C Vafa) The Dark Side of String Theory: Black Holes and Black Strings (G T Horowitz) Some Recent Developments in Closed String Field Theory (A Sen) Quantum Aspects of Black Holes (J A Harvey & A Strominger) The One Dimensional Matrix Model and String Theory (S R Das) Gravity and Gauge Theory at High Energies (H Verlinde) Notes on N = 2 σ-Models (J Distler) The W Geometry of Chiral Surfaces in Complex Projective Spaces (J-L Gervals) On Physical States in 2d (Topological) Gravity (P Bouwknegt et al) Dynamics of the Conformal Factor in 4D Gravity (I Antoniadis) Non-Relativistic Fermions, Coadjoint Orbits of W8 and String Field Theory at c = 1 (A Dhar et al) Simplicial Quantum Gravity (J Ambjørn et al) Gravitational Scattering at Planckian Energies: The Eikonal and Beyond (D Amati) A Proposal for D > 1 Strings? (L Alvarez-Gaumé & J L F Barbón) Differential Equations in Special Kähler Geometry (J Louis) N = 2 First Order Systems: Landau-Ginzburg Potentials and Topological Twist (P Fre & P Soriani) Readership: High energy physicists.