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Victorian Bloomsbury

Eminent Precursors

Distinguished groups in Bloomsbury before there was a Bloomsbury Group.

BY EDWARD SHORT

December 10, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 13

Picasso's work

Monochrome Picasso

Weaving the Master’s spell without color.

BY DANIEL GOODMAN

December 10, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 13

Mayor Richard J. Daley overlooking a public-works project (1966)

Whose Kind of Town?

Understanding the Second City.

BY ANDREW FERGUSON

December 10, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 13

ohio

Goodbye, Columbus

A brief ‘au revoir’ to the Battleground State.

BY JOE QUEENAN

December 10, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 13

Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, 1936

Exiled in Europe

Joseph Roth’s real home was the German language.

BY MARK FALCOFF

December 3, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 12

Stephen A. Douglas

Douglas of the West

He was not called ‘the Little Giant’ for nothing.

BY EDWARD ACHORN

December 3, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 12

Tom Wolfe

Miami Vise

A Cuban-American cop gets caught in a web of allegiances.

BY BRIAN MURRAY

December 3, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 12

‘I’d like to buy the world a Coke.’ (1971)

Kings of the Jingle

How music and commerce combine to make America.

BY TED GIOIA

December 3, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 12

Engaged in Recitation

Reason for Rhyme

The lost art of memorizing (and reciting) verse.

BY WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD

December 3, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 12

St. Nicholas (detail) by Piero di Cosimo

Jolly Old St. Nick

His generosity and wonderworking were fabled in Christendom.

BY DAWN EDEN

December 3, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 12

Indestructible Dream

Exploring the human instinct to live after death.

BY PETER LOPATIN

December 3, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 12

a civil war era submarine

The Civil War at Sea

How the Navy came of age in the War Between the States.

BY JOSEPH F. CALLO

December 3, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 12

Donald E. Westlake in Paris, 2004

Westlake Lives!

Two posthumous gifts from a master entertainer.

BY JON L. BREEN

December 3, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 12

Winston Churchill, Henry Luce, 1949

Winston’s Table Talk

Churchill and the art of delicious conversation.

BY TRACY LEE SIMMONS

December 3, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 12

Robert Francis, 1939

A Natural Poet

Earthly delights in the shade of Robert Frost.

BY ANN STAPLETON

November 26, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 11

Aaron Burr

Clash of Titans

A game of hardball among the Founders.

BY J. HARVIE WILKINSON III

November 26, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 11

A Dance with the Dragon The Vanished World  of Peking’s Foreign Colony

Legation Nation

A good laugh while darkness lurks around the corner.

BY ANDREW ROBERTS

November 26, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 11

Amos Oz in Tel Aviv, 2008

Atheist of the Book

A grand old man of letters meets the literature of Judaism.

BY DAVID WOLPE

November 26, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 11

James Bond

The Inner Bond

A therapeutic thriller featuring the usual suspects.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

November 26, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 11

Barack Obama and Ted Kennedy

Left’s Turn

Who are the liberals, and what do they believe?

BY FRED SIEGEL

November 26, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 11

A statue of liberty

War of Necessity

The anti-anti-Communist perspective on anti-communism.

BY HARVEY KLEHR

November 19, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 10

Izzy Einstein, Moe Smith after Prohibition

Bad for the Jews

Another unintended consequence of the 18th Amendment.

BY TEVI TROY

November 19, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 10

The Harvard Swim Team

Their Right Stuff

The evolution of the Harvard guinea pigs.

BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

November 19, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 10

Edward Lear

Funny Peculiar

The genius of the poet laureate of nonsense.

BY SARA LODGE

November 19, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 10

Dana Gioia

Happy the Man

Dana Gioia has the courage of his contentment.

BY JAMES GARDNER

November 19, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 10

The Blue Helix

Beyond the Apps

The Blue Helix should suffice for the next few months.

BY JOE QUEENAN

November 19, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 10

Ariel makes her appearance

‘Tempest’ for Moderns

Sandy was not the only storm to arrive in Manhattan.

BY KELLY JANE TORRANCE

November 12, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 09

Students with dictionary, Chubb Library, Ohio University, ca. 1961

Wars of Words

The story behind the stories about Webster’s Third.

BY JOSEPH EPSTEIN

November 12, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 09

Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady

Their Fair Lady

The making of a postwar/Broadway/Hollywood musical blockbuster.

BY GINA DALFONZO

November 12, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 09

Kirkpatrick at the UN

Voice of America

How Professor Kirkpatrick became Ronald Reagan’s woman at the U.N.

BY MARY EBERSTADT

November 12, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 09

Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans

War Without Victory

A bicentennial reflection on the War of 1812.

BY JAMES M. BANNER JR.

November 5, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 08

Gregory Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, ca. 1950

Papa’s Secret

Words, as well as deeds, are the key to understanding Hemingway.

BY EDWIN M. YODER JR.

November 5, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 08