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Irving Howe
July 5, 2024
Michael Kimmage
The New York Intellectuals’ Battle of the Sexes
Norman Mailer’s generation learned to “write like men.” But their female contemporaries from Mary McCarthy to Diana Trilling pioneered a more enduring style.
May 24, 2018
Jeet Heer
Commentary still can’t forgive Philip Roth.
April 30, 2018
Jeet Heer
Is Kanye West “the Ezra Pound of Rap”?
The rapper's flirtation with right-wing politics renews an age-old debate about art and politics.
June 8, 2014
Jenna Weissman Joselit
'Fiddler on the Roof' Distorted Sholem Aleichem
But Sholem Aleichem distorted shtetl life to begin with
January 27, 2013
Michael Kinsley
Sixth Time's the Charm
My Journalistic Life in (Nasty) Letters
November 23, 2011
Franklin Foer
The Browbeater
March 17, 2011
Franklin Foer
Ideas Rule the World
February 10, 2011
Cynthia Ozick
Lasting Man
May 5, 2010
Paul Berman
The Prisoner Intellectuals
February 12, 2010
Leon Wieseltier
Washington Diarist: The New Proles
August 7, 2009
Adam Kirsch
A Nation of Commentators
October 22, 2008
Leon Wieseltier
The Shrinker
October 8, 2008
Alan Wolfe
Gonzo Sociology
March 26, 2008
Jed Perl
The Troubadour Intellectual
October 9, 2007
The New Republic Staff
The Narcissists Of The Old Left
February 18, 1991
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Irving Howe
The Value of the Canon
What's wrong with “P.C.”
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March 11, 1985
Leon Wieseltier
Nuclear Idealism, Nuclear Realism