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June 1, 1992
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Fire Last Time
What James Baldwin can and can't teach America.
April 27, 1992
Irving Howe
The Old Magician
In defense of the late, scolding Tolstoy.
December 2, 1991
John Updike
The Waspshot Chronicle
December 2, 1991
John Updike
John Updike Beautifully Explains How Difficult It Was To Read John Cheever's Tortured Journals
September 9, 1991
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Hendrik Hertzberg
The Child Monarch
America’s silliest world-historical figure
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July 15, 1991
Gerald Early
One Nation Under a Groove
The brief, shining moment of Motown—and America.
June 17, 1991
Jacob Weisberg
Rough Trade
The sad decline of American publishing.
March 11, 1991
Irving Howe
An Exercise in Memory
Eliot and the Jews: A personal confession.
November 19, 1990
Christopher Lasch
The Saving Remnant
May 28, 1990
Carla Anne Robbins
Growing Pains in Panama
What kind of a country kept Manuel Noriega in power?
September 4, 1989
Martin Peretz
Field of Dreams
June 19, 1989
Richard Rorty
The Philosophy of the Oddball
A review of Stanley Cavell's 'In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism'
May 8, 1989
Irving Howe
The Human Factor
Are characters like people?
October 10, 1988
James Wolcott
Yada Yada Yada
February 16, 1987
Louis Menand
Excerpt From: “Talk Talk”
September 8, 1986
Pearl Bell
The Woman Who Loved Words
How Christina Stead's one brilliant novel was saved from neglect
May 12, 1986
Richard Gilman
Malamud’s Grace
Humanism with and without tears
February 9, 1986
Henry Fairlie
The Screwtape Columns
July 1, 1985
Separate But Equal
July 1, 1985
Edward Luttwak
In Praise of Spying

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