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September 24, 2001
Roger Shattuck
The Marble Cell
May 14, 2001
MagazineMario Vargas Llosa
Why Literature?
The premature obituary of the book
March 26, 2001
Frank Kermode
Homo Scriblerus
November 26, 2000
Elizabeth Hardwick
The Disabused
A Review of Stories by Anton Chekhov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
July 24, 2000
James Wood
Human, All Too Inhuman
On the formation of a new genre: hysterical realism.
November 22, 1999
Albert Murray
Jazz Lips: On Louis Armstrong
February 22, 1999
Martha C. Nussbaum
The Professor of Parody
The hip defeatism of Judith Butler
October 13, 1997
Sherwin B. Nuland
Doctors and Deities
September 8, 1997
Margaret Talbot
Chicks And Chuckles
Bettie Page and the fate of pleasure in America.
July 7, 1997
Robert Boyers
The Indigenous Berserk
A review of Philip Roth's "American Pastoral"
June 30, 1997
Alexander Star
Finite Jest
May 27, 1997
Sherwin B. Nuland
Hate in the Time of Cholera
March 31, 1997
James Wolcott
The 20-Year Old Who Dated Her Dad—And Then Wrote A Book About It
March 17, 1997
James Wood
The All of the If
“Moby-Dick” is the great dream of mastery over language.
March 10, 1997
Sean Wilentz
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson
How a slaveholder and ideologue was also a great democrat.
July 8, 1996
Nicholas Lemann
Reed in the Wind
May 13, 1996
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MagazineMargaret Talbot
Les Très Riches Heures de Martha Stewart
Money, time, and the surrender of American taste
Subscribers Only
March 22, 1996
Jim Sleeper
Brother Act
Review of Al Sharpton's autobiography
November 20, 1995
Michael Lewis
Ben Bradlee Had a Talent for a Specific Kind of Trouble
He sold himself as an outsider while he was in many ways the consummate insider.
October 16, 1995
Sherwin B. Nuland
The Plague

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