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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

Don Cherry, 2007

Northern Highlights

When Canadians watch ice hockey, this is what they see.

BY MICHAEL TAUBE

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

'Good beef for hungry people.'

Here's the Beef

Prime cuts, from the Chisholm Trail to Walter Mondale

BY TERRY EASTLAND

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

James McAvoy

If Memory Serves

Familiar premise (art heist) meets tired device (amnesia).

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

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

Orkney

Love, Virtually

Is it a dream, or a marriage on the rocks?

BY ELISABETH EAVES

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

hopscotch films

Diamonds in the Rough

A sweet sideshow in South Vietnam.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

Woody Guthrie

Bound for Pulp

Alas, the Woody Guthrie industry unearths a novel.

BY MICHAEL WARREN

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

Immigrant children at Ellis Island, 1908

Welcome to America

The business of immigration is more than business.

BY PETER SKERRY

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

Bacon's Rebellion

Tragedy in Virginia

An insurrection sets the pattern for relations with the Indians.

BY NELSON D. LANKFORD

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

William Hogarth’s ‘Gin Lane’ (ca. 1780)

Shaken Not Stirred

How the opiate of the masses got gentrified.

BY MARTIN MORSE WOOSTER

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

‘Ecce Ancilla Domini!’  by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1849-50)

Sensual Christianity

The Pre-Raphaelites get the show, and showcase, they deserve.

BY EVE TUSHNET

April 15, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 29

‘The Duke of Marlborough at the Battle of Oudenaarde’ (ca. 1740) by John Wootton

Empire of Liberty

How the New World was made by an illustrious Churchill.

BY THOMAS DONNELLY

April 1 - April 8, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28

First consignment of sugar to Britain under the Marshall Plan, 1949

The American Story

How does it get told outside America?

BY ALONZO L. HAMBY

April 1 - April 8, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28

Spring Breakers

Trip to Nowhere

‘The dark heart of shiftless American youth’ just got darker.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

April 1 - April 8, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28

Alexandra Aldrich

House of Cards

In the eyes of a child, the collapse of a family.

BY WENDY BURDEN

April 1 - April 8, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28

'Tourists II' by Duane Hanson (1988)

Getting There

How, and why, Americans go on vacation.

BY THOMAS SWICK

April 1 - April 8, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28

Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (1958)

Scholar-Gentleman

‘Well done, Wheeler-Bennett,’ as historian and sage.

BY ANDREW ROBERTS

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

Demi Moore as Hester Prynne in ‘The Scarlet Letter’ (1995)

The Secret Society

Hawthorne as chronicler of the American unconscious.

BY MICAH MATTIX

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

de Gaulle

France’s de Gaulle

Or de Gaulle’s France. Are the two interchangeable?

BY ROGER KAPLAN

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

Noam Chomsky releases doves, Cabramatta High School, near Sydney, Australia

Forbidden City

The left-wing stranglehold on academia.

BY MARK BAUERLEIN

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

James Franco

Under the Rainbow

A charming 20th-century fairy tale gets the crass treatment.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

March 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 27

President Calvin Coolidge, October 2, 1924

Not-So-Silent Cal

The underestimation ends here.

BY ALVIN S. FELZENBERG

March 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 26

wrapping paper

The Paper Chase

Vengeance is mine when the crime is so abhorrent.

BY JOE QUEENAN

March 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 26

‘Jacob Receiving the Tunic of Joseph’ by Diego Velázquez (ca. 1630)

Patriarch of Identity

Who is Jacob, and what does he mean?

BY DAVID WOLPE

March 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 26

Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana

If the Slipper Fits

Cinderella gets the update she deserves.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

March 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 26

M.R. James, ca. 1900

An English Chill

Rediscovering the ghost stories of M. R. James.

BY SARA LODGE

March 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 26

Petri Dish

Ignoble Experiment

This is what happens when dogma distorts science.

BY MICHAEL ROSEN

March 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 26

George Weigel

Roman Spring

The fundamental challenge(s) of Catholic renewal.

BY RYAN T. ANDERSON

March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25

William Manchester, 1967

Crescendo in C

An unexpected ending for Manchester’s Churchill.

BY STEVEN F. HAYWARD

March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25

Saul Steinberg drawing Jean-Paul Sartre, 1946

Man With a Line

The gimlet eye of Saul Steinberg.

BY JOSEPH EPSTEIN

March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25

Gael García Bernal in ‘No’

Resounding Yes

From Chile, of all places, a political movie that works.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25

Ariel Sharon, George W. Bush, Mahmoud Abbas in Aqaba, 2003

The Inside Story

George W. Bush was most successful when defying ‘consensus.’

BY MICHAEL S. DORAN

March 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25