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September 8, 1997
Margaret Talbot
Chicks And Chuckles
Bettie Page and the fate of pleasure in America.
March 6, 1995
Leon Wieseltier
All and Nothing at All
The unreal world of Cornel West
April 27, 1992
Irving Howe
The Old Magician
In defense of the late, scolding Tolstoy.
January 6, 1992
Simon Schama
Christopher Columbus Was Both a Crusader and a Villain
But his story is too complicated to only use dichotomies.
December 2, 1991
John Updike
The Waspshot Chronicle
April 29, 1991
Irving Howe
Contested Terrain
November 19, 1990
Christopher Lasch
The Saving Remnant
October 10, 1988
James Wolcott
Yada Yada Yada
February 9, 1986
Henry Fairlie
The Screwtape Columns
March 19, 1984
Elizabeth Hardwick
The Perfectionist
January 15, 1983
Alfred Kazin
Parading His Serenading
May 5, 1979
Nicholas Lemann
The Power, The Glory, The Media, The Men, The Money, The Irony, The Symbols, America, The Meaning of It All
Oh What a Big Deal This Is.
February 25, 1967
MagazineRichard M. Elman
Hell’s Angels, Reviewed
Hunter S. Thompson’s book is a comic metaphor for a society getting what it deserves.
January 28, 1967
Stephen Spender
The Brilliant Mr. MacNeice
March 17, 1958
Daniel Bell
The Towerless Edifice—Part II
December 1, 1957
Leon Edel
Throttling the Voice of Passion
March 10, 1952
Richard Hofstadter
The No Man’s Land of American History
November 13, 1949
Dwight MacDonald
Conservatism Revisited
February 18, 1946
Ralph Ellison
The Booker T.
November 11, 1945
Saul Bellow
Samson Without Delilah

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