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‘So Far’ So Good by Joe Queenan

‘So Far’ So Good

Everything is not always as it seems—at the moment.

BY JOE QUEENAN

June 24, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 39

Not-So-Sunny Italy by Michael Ledeen

Not-So-Sunny Italy

The slow, but steady, revelations of the Fascist era.

BY MICHAEL LEDEEN

June 24, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 39

The Lonely Skybox by Joseph Epstein

The Lonely Skybox

Chicago is bereft of celebrity fans.

BY JOSEPH EPSTEIN

June 24, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 39

God in the Details: Explaining the connection between family and religion.

God in the Details

Explaining the connection between family and religion.

BY JONATHAN V. LAST

June 24, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 39

The Ivy League Babbitt

The Ivy League Babbitt

The social and political prescience of Harvard’s humanist.

BY EMILY SCHRADER

June 24, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 39

N. C. Wyeth illustration from ‘The Last of the Mohicans’

Our Stories Begin

The forgotten growing pains of American fiction.

BY ANTHONY PALETTA

June 24, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 39

Vaslav Nijinsky in ‘Siamese Dance’ by Jacques-Émile Blanche (ca. 1910)

Dance of Creation

The Ballets Russes and the dawn of modernity.

BY EVE TUSHNET

June 17, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 38

‘Solomon’s Judgment’ by Franc Caucig (ca. 1817)

Wisdom of the Sage

The idea, and the reality, of King Solomon.

BY AARON ROTHSTEIN

June 17, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 38

‘Portrait of Henri Cordier’ by Gustave Caillebotte (1883)

Truth of the Matter

The writing and editing of ‘fact.’

BY JOSEPH EPSTEIN

June 17, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 38

Chelsea Pensioner

Britain in Bloom

The Chelsea Flower Show celebrates its centennial.

BY SARA LODGE

June 17, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 38

Louisiana

Infamous Creoles

Annals of the avant-garde in the Vieux Carré.

BY BARTON SWAIM

June 10, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 37

sony

Ultra Life

From Israel, a transcendent vision of marriage.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

June 10, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 37

Herman Wouk in Times Square, 1962

Morningstar in America

An underrated novel gets some overdue attention.

BY JONATHAN LEAF

June 10, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 37

Marilynne Robinson

The Human Factor

The family of man seems to confuse its latest therapist.

BY MICAH MATTIX

June 10, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 37

Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, President Ngo Dinh Diem, Saigon, August 26, 1963

The Opening Act

‘Sink or swim with Ngo Dinh Diem.’

BY CHARLES TRUEHEART

June 10, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 37

Entering the Kingdom of Walt by car

Disney’s America

To understand ourselves, this is one place to start.

BY ELI LEHRER

June 10, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 37

Liberated slaves—‘contrabands of war’—at Cumberland Landing, Virginia (1862)

The Great Debate

Against slavery, as it happened.

BY KEN MASUGI

June 3, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 36

dpa / everett collection

Franz K. on Trial

The inner meaning of the outsider Kafka.

BY SUSANNE KLINGENSTEIN

June 3, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 36

Janet Malcom

One Writer’s Bloc

Sometimes Janet Malcolm gets it right, and sometimes not.

BY PETER TONGUETTE

June 3, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 36

Pine district pictures

Girl, Uninterrupted

A landmark in cinematic self-love.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

June 3, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 36

Cardinal Newman

Cardinal Virtue

Style and substance in the voice of John Henry Newman.

BY EDWARD SHORT

June 3, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 36

On the stump in Charlotte (1948)

The Red Balloon

Henry Wallace is not to be taken seriously, then or now.

BY HARVEY KLEHR

June 3, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 36

Helen and Anthony Hecht at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, ca. 1997

Formal Address

The correspondence of Anthony Hecht.

BY WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

John D. Rockefeller Jr., ca. 1943

Follow the Money

What people do with their wealth is whose business?

BY MARTIN MORSE WOOSTER

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

Woodrow and Edith Wilson, 1920

Two Heads, One Body

What could possibly go wrong in a co-presidency?

BY TEVI TROY

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

St. Mary Aldermanbury, Fulton

In Churchill’s Steps

A velvet red carpet in the ‘Iron Curtain’ city.

BY CITA STELZER

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

‘The Dying Alexander Receiving His Soldiers’ by J. André Castaigne (1899)

A World Divided

You can’t take it with you, and here’s why.

BY J.E. LENDON

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

Gatsby

A Greater Gatsby

This cinematic version works, old sport.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

Animal Magnetism at work

Believing Is Seeing

The continuing saga of human credulity.

BY LAWRENCE KLEPP

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

Raymond Queneau in a photo booth, ca. 1929

Words at Play

Cracking the code of the Workshop for Potential Literature.

BY SARA LODGE

May 20, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 34

Nicole Kidman as Isabel Archer (1996)

Picture Perfect

How the Master saw the outsider’s inner life.

BY EDWIN M. YODER JR.

May 20, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 34

The late Anwar al-Awlaki delivers ‘A Message to the People of the Media’ (2011).

Unfriendly Fire

Terrorism has its partisans, alas.

BY BRUCE BAWER

May 20, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 34

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