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May 13, 1996
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MagazineMargaret Talbot
Les Très Riches Heures de Martha Stewart
Money, time, and the surrender of American taste
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March 22, 1996
Jim Sleeper
Brother Act
Review of Al Sharpton's autobiography
November 20, 1995
Michael Lewis
Ben Bradlee Had a Talent for a Specific Kind of Trouble
He sold himself as an outsider while he was in many ways the consummate insider.
October 16, 1995
Sherwin B. Nuland
The Plague
October 2, 1995
Alan Brinkley
Balance in the Earth
September 18, 1995
Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich on Richard Ford’s ‘Independence Day’
August 7, 1995
Anthony T. Grafton
The Forest and the Trees
July 17, 1995
Malcolm Gladwell
The Plague Year
July 11, 1995
Hans Meyerhoff
The Day Dylan Thomas's Poetic Brilliance Triumphed Over His Sad Alcohol Dependency
He couldn't even pour a glass of water. Then, he began to read his poetry...
May 8, 1995
John Banville
Crabby & Evelyn
John Banville reviews Selina Hastings's 'Evelyn Waugh: A Biography.'
April 24, 1995
Sean Wilentz
The Air Around Tom Paine
March 27, 1995
Robert Alter
The Leveling Wind
March 6, 1995
Leon Wieseltier
All and Nothing at All
The unreal world of Cornel West
July 25, 1994
Brent D. Shaw
A Groom of One's Own
September 13, 1993
Nicholas Lemann
The Lawyer as Hero
The enduring legacy of Thurgood Marshall
February 1, 1993
Gordon S. Wood
The Father of Spin Control
June 1, 1992
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Fire Last Time
What James Baldwin can and can't teach America.
April 27, 1992
Irving Howe
The Old Magician
In defense of the late, scolding Tolstoy.
December 2, 1991
John Updike
The Waspshot Chronicle
December 2, 1991
John Updike
John Updike Beautifully Explains How Difficult It Was To Read John Cheever's Tortured Journals

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