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Whitman at War

Posted June 2, 201500:49:58

The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nursing...

What Money Can’t Buy

Posted May 28, 201500:46:23

It’s graduation time in Boston, and the Class of 2015 is asking “Now what?†If our young ones need help choosing, the market...

James Wood: The Book(s) of Life

Posted May 28, 201500:33:00

The book critic James Wood doesn't worry about the fate of the novel — after years of reading them, writing them, reviewing them in The...

Pakistan: With Friends Like These…

Posted May 20, 201500:49:58

Seymour Hersh’s LRB scoop on the execution of Osama bin Laden – too hot, apparently, for the New Yorker to handle – is a persuasive...

TPP On Trial

Posted May 12, 201500:49:59

The Democrats’ revolt against President Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership has everything to do with the “giant sucking soundâ€...