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February 28, 1988
Frank Kermode
The New Historicism
June 1, 1987
Hendrik Hertzberg
Sluicegate
The Gary Hart scandal shows the press at its worst.
March 15, 1987
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
The Imperial Temptation
Reagan’s presidency succumbs.
September 1, 1986
Daniel A. Farber
Too Clever By Half
The case against brilliance.
February 9, 1986
Henry Fairlie
The Screwtape Columns
January 27, 1986
Jacob Weisberg
The Buckrakers
Washington journalism enters a rich new era.
July 16, 1984
Michael Kinsley
Dept. of Amplification
William Shawn and the temple of facts.
March 19, 1984
Elizabeth Hardwick
The Perfectionist
June 20, 1983
Irving Howe
The Spell of Fagin
May 16, 1983
MagazineMorton Kondracke
George Shultz, The Nowhere Man
Shultz is a repairman, but we need a strategist.
March 21, 1983
MagazineHenry Fairlie
The Vanity of “Vanity Fair”
A monument to status anxiety
March 14, 1983
Jon Margolis
Bernie of Burlington
The trials and tribulations of the only Socialist head of government in the U.S.
January 15, 1983
Alfred Kazin
Parading His Serenading
March 17, 1982
Czeslaw Milosz
On Catholicism
July 18, 1981
MagazineCarl Bernstein
Arms for Afghanistan
The resistance fighters think they get no help from the US. They're wrong.
May 23, 1981
Michael Kinsley
The Mystery of the Free Lunch
April 24, 1981
Graham Greene
Discovering Narayan
February 14, 1981
Mark Crispin Miller, Karen Runyon
And That's the Way It Seems
August 30, 1980
Alison Lurie
Return of the Ship of Fools
Cruising the Democratic convention.
May 3, 1980
Leon Edel
Edmund Wilson in the 1930s

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