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Gatsby

A Greater Gatsby

This cinematic version works, old sport.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

Animal Magnetism at work

Believing Is Seeing

The continuing saga of human credulity.

BY LAWRENCE KLEPP

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

Helen and Anthony Hecht at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, ca. 1997

Formal Address

The correspondence of Anthony Hecht.

BY WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

John D. Rockefeller Jr., ca. 1943

Follow the Money

What people do with their wealth is whose business?

BY MARTIN MORSE WOOSTER

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

Woodrow and Edith Wilson, 1920

Two Heads, One Body

What could possibly go wrong in a co-presidency?

BY TEVI TROY

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

St. Mary Aldermanbury, Fulton

In Churchill’s Steps

A velvet red carpet in the ‘Iron Curtain’ city.

BY CITA STELZER

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

‘The Dying Alexander Receiving His Soldiers’ by J. André Castaigne (1899)

A World Divided

You can’t take it with you, and here’s why.

BY J.E. LENDON

May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35

Marvel Studios

Characters Count

An infinite number of explosions gets you only so far.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

May 20, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 34

Raymond Queneau in a photo booth, ca. 1929

Words at Play

Cracking the code of the Workshop for Potential Literature.

BY SARA LODGE

May 20, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 34

Nicole Kidman as Isabel Archer (1996)

Picture Perfect

How the Master saw the outsider’s inner life.

BY EDWIN M. YODER JR.

May 20, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 34

The late Anwar al-Awlaki delivers ‘A Message to the People of the Media’ (2011).

Unfriendly Fire

Terrorism has its partisans, alas.

BY BRUCE BAWER

May 20, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 34

Allen Weinstein, Bill Clinton in Little Rock, Arkansas (2005)

Truth to Tell

A 35th-anniversary revision of a Cold War classic.

BY RONALD RADOSH

May 20, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 34

Benedict Nightingale

Nightingale’s Song

The collected versatility of a ‘really good’ critic.

BY JOHN SIMON

May 20, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 34

‘George Washington Addresses the Constitutional Convention’

A Little Learning

The left-wing contribution to the shouting match.

BY JOSEPH KNIPPENBERG

May 13, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 33

Cauliflower

Defining Vegetables Down

The more we know about, say, cauliflower, the less we like it.

BY JOE QUEENAN

May 13, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 33

Hart and Rodgers, ca. 1930

Little Boy Blue

The brief, unhappy transit of Lorenz Hart.

BY KATE LIGHT

May 13, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 33

The Rock, Mark Wahlberg

Idiot’s Delight

The ‘American dream’ survives an armed assault.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

May 13, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 33

J. H. Elliott awarded an honorary degree at Alcalá University, Spain (2012)

A Scholar’s Journey

From 17th-century Spain to the world at large.

BY JAMES M. BANNER

May 13, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 33

The Bundy family of ‘Married .  .  . With Children’ (ca. 1997)

Fathers and Sons

‘Special’ children in a less-than-special world.

BY TEMMA EHRENFELD

May 13, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 33

Europe

Organizing Europe

The key to continental 'unity' lies in its center.

BY STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

May 6, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 32

Charles Baudelaire, Roberto Calasso

God in the Details

Is the decadent Baudelaire the answer to the bourgeoisie?

BY ALGIS VALIUNAS

May 6, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 32

Marines

Leatherneck Tales

How the Marines have survived, and why.

BY MACKUBIN THOMAS OWENS

May 6, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 32

42

Jackie, Oh

A great story yields a not-so-great film version.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

May 6, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 32

Whitey Kurowski, Enos Slaughter, Marty Marion, Stan Musial

Safe at Home

The rebirth of the national pastime after World War II.

BY COLIN FLEMING

May 6, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 32

Angela Davis '61 at the Soviet International Women's Seminar, Moscow (1972)

Left Behind

Sometimes indoctrination works, and sometimes it doesn't.

BY ABIGAIL THERNSTROM

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

Penmanship of Edgar Allen Poe (ca. 1848)

Is the Pen Mightier?

The moving hand writes, and having written, moves to keyboarding

BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

Derek Cianfrance

Epic Lite

Impressive intentions yield less-than-impressive results

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

Outside the A&P (ca. 1960)

The Big Store

The mythology of small business meets a retailing giant.

BY JAY WEISER

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

David Ferry

In Search of God

David Ferry, poet of inquiry and doubt.

BY DIANE SCHARPER

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

Kantharos (drinking vessel), sixth century B.C.

Their Sporting Life

Of games and gladiators, Greeks and Romans.

BY J.E. LENDON

April 29, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 31

Bust of FDR at Four Freedoms Park

A Hidden Monument

Roosevelt Island commemorates its namesake.

BY JAMES GARDNER

April 22, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 30

Portrait of John Keats by William Hilton

Poet of Loss

Dead at 25, Keats is forever the passionate voice.

BY MICHAEL DIRDA

April 22, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 30

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