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April 3, 1989
Mark Hosenball
The Brothers Bush
The (rather spotty) business records of the Bush brothers, circa 1989.
March 27, 1989
Henry Fairlie
A Modest Proposal (To Mandate That All Politician Be Eunuchs)
A satire for the ages
December 26, 1988
Vint Lawrence
Eraserface
George Bush, cartoonist's nightmare.
July 18, 1988
Henry Fairlie
Henry Fairlie on What Europeans Thought of Our Revolution
It really was a shot heard round the world.
July 27, 1987
Stanley Kauffmann
Blank Cartridge
A review of Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket"
June 1, 1987
Frank Rich
Pain In The Sass
On Leslie Frewin's biography of Dorothy Parker
September 8, 1986
Pearl Bell
The Woman Who Loved Words
How Christina Stead's one brilliant novel was saved from neglect
July 28, 1986
Frank Rich
Samurai Snobs
May 12, 1986
Richard Gilman
Malamud’s Grace
Humanism with and without tears
February 17, 1986
Primo Levi
Primo Levi's Heartbreaking, Heroic Answers to the Most Common Questions He Was Asked About "Survival in Auschwitz"
November 11, 1985
Stanley Kauffmann
How Orson Welles Survived Hollywood
On his hundredth birthday, a contemporary appreciation.
August 12, 1985
Terence Moran
Sounds of Sex
Why Daddy took the T-Bird away
April 9, 1984
Charles Krauthammer
America’s Holy War
Proposal for an armistice
March 28, 1984
The New Republic Staff
Rx From Dr. Seuss
In "The Butter Battle Book" the children's author takes on the Cold War.
March 19, 1984
Elizabeth Hardwick
The Perfectionist
September 19, 1983
Victor Brombert
Sincerely, M. Proust
Marcel Proust's early letters foreshadow the great novel to come
June 13, 1983
The New Republic Staff
This Ad for a New Republic T-Shirt Had One Reader Up in Arms
January 15, 1983
Alfred Kazin
Parading His Serenading
July 5, 1982
Stanley Kauffmann
The Gospel According to St. Steven
June 2, 1982
Martin Green
Man of Masks
A review of two books on Leo Tolstoy

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