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Love on a three-day shoot: Waller's debt to Hemingway. Monteiro, George Critical essay Sep 1, 2009 439
At the bookstore: with purpose: going from success to significance in work and life. Dychiwald, Ken Brief article Aug 1, 2009 73
Discover the magic in your marriage: Linda and Richard Eyre's relationship Mastery. Interview Aug 1, 2009 1108
Cheever's seaside houses as a remodeling of James's Jolly Corner. Gray, Larry A. Critical essay May 1, 2009 865
Seville, Catherine. "Authors as Copyright Campaigners: Mark Twain's Legacy.". Brief article Apr 1, 2009 73
Redefining remate: Hemingway's professed approach to writing A Moveable Feast. Del Gizzo, Suzanne Critical essay Mar 22, 2009 2658
Speaking volumes. Potter, Betsy Interview Mar 2, 2009 295
Poe and Bloch in Stephen King's Secret Window, Secret Garden. Szumskyj, Benjamin Critical essay Mar 1, 2009 455
We bid farewell to John Updike, R.I.P., elsewhere (see p. 43). Obituary Feb 23, 2009 135
Hemingway archives opened. Feb 1, 2009 399
"In the most popular governments," wrote John Adams, "elections will generally go in favor of the most ancient families.". Brief article Jan 26, 2009 154
Richard Brookhiser first wrote for National Review when he was 14--his piece appeared on the cover. Brief article Dec 15, 2008 123
Error by trial. O'Neill, Brendan Nov 17, 2008 1766
Saved by the bell curve. Beer, Jeremy Nov 17, 2008 1568
Gardnering at night. Kauffman, Bill Nov 17, 2008 774
The book that devoured its reader: David Maine's Monster 1959. Ziegler, Robert Critical essay Nov 1, 2008 915
What's the matter with Thomas Frank? Piatak, Tom Oct 6, 2008 1661
Screening the military. Brief article Oct 1, 2008 252
Tax aspects of an author's first book. Starkman, Jay Oct 1, 2008 387
Intransitive autobiography: Naked Lunch and the problem of personal identity. Bennett, Benjamin Sep 22, 2008 4790
James Salter's "Am Strande von Tanger". Meyers, Jeffrey Critical essay Sep 1, 2008 1455
Saul Bellow's favorite thought on Herzog? The evidence of an unpublished Bellow letter. Cohen, Mark Critical essay Sep 1, 2008 883
Fiction abandoned. Aeschliman, M. D. Aug 18, 2008 1909
Table talk: Michael Pollan chats with Rod Dreher about how food culture can transcend the Left-Right divide. Dreher, Rod Interview Jun 30, 2008 3315
Alternatives to the "talking cure": black music as traumatic testimony in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. Visvis, Vikki Critical essay Jun 22, 2008 8979
Wordsmith to a hero: of pens, swords, and Mark Salter. Miller, John J. May 5, 2008 1610
Hemingway, Gongora and the concept of nada. Meyers, Jeffrey Critical essay May 1, 2008 875
Clowning around in James Purdy's: The Paradise Circus. Bennett, Michael Y. Critical essay May 1, 2008 1113
The big empty and a silver voice. Aeschliman, M.D. Essay Apr 7, 2008 2571
The man from UNHCR. Merry, Wayne Apr 7, 2008 1746
Jane Barker's letters from Canberra. Willson, Robert Apr 1, 2008 1613
Reading WFB. Kesler, Charles R. Mar 24, 2008 1928
The good guy's good guy. Steyn, Mark Mar 24, 2008 942
Looking back: the making of a Hemingway bibliography. Hanneman, Audre Mar 22, 2008 3721
Museo Finca Vigia celebrates its 45th birthday (1). Ferrero, Gladys Rodriguez Mar 22, 2008 8110
"How beautiful the virgin forests were before the loggers came" an ecofeminist reading of Hemingway's "The End of Something". Tyler, Lisa Critical essay Mar 22, 2008 5526
Into Africa: narrative and authority in Hemingway's The Garden of Eden. Silbergleid, Robin Critical essay Mar 22, 2008 9534
Ernest Hemingway and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Svensson, Ove G. Mar 22, 2008 2061
Ernest Hemingway's Miltonic twist in "Up in Michigan". Maloney, Ian Critical essay Mar 22, 2008 3275
Current bibliography. Larson, Kelli A. Bibliography Mar 22, 2008 2658
Interview. Capote, Truman Mar 22, 2008 526
Thomas Pynchon's Long Island years. Hartnett, Michael Mar 22, 2008 450
Sue Miller: Ms. Miller turns to politics, as the wife of a senator deals with his chronic infidelity. Teisch, Jessica Mar 1, 2008 1977
More. Kinney, David Mar 1, 2008 483
A modern valediction Forbidding mourning. Levitov, Francine Bibliography Mar 1, 2008 2839
Philip Roth's quarrel with realism in American Pastoral. Louis, Ansu; Neelekantan, G. Critical essay Mar 1, 2008 1258
Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Melville's Moby Dick: a comparative study. Govender, Dyalan Critical essay Jan 1, 2008 4094
In memoriam Norman Mailer (1923-2007). In memoriam Jan 1, 2008 192
Richard Russo: the latest dispatch from upstate New York. Teisch, Jessica Jan 1, 2008 2425
The humanist interview: Ellery Schempp. Niose, David Interview Jan 1, 2008 2804
Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and the essentializing of Africa: a critical double standard? Purcell, William F. Critical essay Nov 1, 2007 1034
"The Emperor of Ice-Cream" and the Florida cigar industry. Meyers, Jeffrey Critical essay Nov 1, 2007 693
Implications of the The Incredible Shrinking Man allusion in Don DeLillo's Americana. Laist, Randy Critical essay Nov 1, 2007 1087
The wildness of Christianity: the legacy of Madeleine L'Engle. Avakian, Tanya Biography Oct 26, 2007 1827
The trouble with religion: certainty is no substitute for faith. Garvey, John Oct 12, 2007 806
"Forever fearful of a crash": family vis-a-vis materialism in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. Chatterjee, Srirupa; Neelakantan, G. Critical essay Sep 1, 2007 1711
Dragon goes to bed with princess: F. Scott Fitzgerald's influence on Sylvia Plath. Journey, Anna Critical essay Sep 1, 2007 941
Having the last word: Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby. Zeigler, Robert Critical essay Sep 1, 2007 997
Accounting for days: Lynne Tillman on Stephen Shore's road trip journal. Tillman, Lynne Jun 22, 2007 935
The CIA knew the depense department knew of Iraqi insurgency--but did nothing: "the U.S. intelligence community ... steadfastly has resisted serious attempts to exploit and release the information captured in postwar Iraq.". Hayes, Stephen F. Speech May 1, 2007 2794
Literature of the Beat Generation. Teisch, Jessica May 1, 2007 3660
White, straight lady Savannah of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Farca, Paula Anca Critical essay May 1, 2007 998
Dragged into the past: a major motif in Munro's "Walker Brothers Cowboy". Blythe, Hal; Sweet, Charlie Critical essay May 1, 2007 887
Adam Smith's roles for government and contemporary U.S. government roles: is the welfare state crowding out government's basic functions? Lipford, Jody W.; Slice, Jerry Mar 22, 2007 5484
The Great Gatsby. Pidgeon, John A. Mar 22, 2007 3081
Wallace Stegner. Teisch, Jessica Critical essay Mar 1, 2007 3849
The devil's advocate? Norman Mailer channels Satan and Hitler's childhood in his controversial new novel. We sit down with the legendary writer to ask what the hell he was thinking. Solomont, E.B. Interview Mar 1, 2007 1026
Upending conventional wisdom: "Freakonomics" author Stephen Dubner explains why everything you think you know could be wrong. Kruger, Jennifer Barr Interview Mar 1, 2007 1365
Are there echoes of bloch and Fitzgerald in Ellis's American Psycho? Szumskyj, Benjamin Critical essay Mar 1, 2007 642
A Confederacy of Sons and Lovers: similarities between A Confederacy of Dunces and Sons and Lovers. Lewis, Bernard Critical essay Mar 1, 2007 623
Notes & comments: February 2007. Viewpoint essay Feb 1, 2007 1691
Apocalypse Now Redux: Heart of Darkness moves into new territory. Demory, Pamela Critical essay Jan 1, 2007 5106
The kindest cut of all: adapting Thomas Harris's Hannibal. Schmid, David Critical essay Jan 1, 2007 4392
Hemingway's "The Killers" and heroic fatalism: from page to screen (thrice). Booth, Philip Critical essay Jan 1, 2007 5334
John Kekes and the predicament of the secularist. Henry, Michael Jan 1, 2007 6007
Stealing and killing: a property-rights theory of mass murder. Carson, Stephen W. Viewpoint essay Jan 1, 2007 5920
On the road to tragedy: mice, candy, and land in Of Mice and Men. Cardullo, Bert Jan 1, 2007 4144
Nurturing and murderous mothers in Suzan-Lori Parks's In the Blood and Fucking A. Foster, Verna A. Jan 1, 2007 5154
Not the face in the mirror: an interview with Julius Lester. Pilcher, Brad Interview Jan 1, 2007 3346
Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" and Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Blythe, Hal; Eastern, Charlie Sweet; Richmond, Kentucky U. Critical essay Jan 1, 2007 928
From imagination to action: can fiction be a vehicle for social change? Weaver-Zercher, Valerie Nov 1, 2006 1846
The week. Oct 23, 2006 4245
Don't end up fathering by default. Interview Oct 1, 2006 1013
It can't happen here: the fantasy worlds of War on Terror novels. Weigel, David Oct 1, 2006 1408
Theological reflections on Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. Mitchell, Mark T. Critical essay Sep 22, 2006 5219
Songs of the Second World War. Gunn, Gail Sep 1, 2006 4327
Coultergeist. Brief article Aug 1, 2006 38
John Cheever's "Hollywood problem". Bailey, Blake Biography Jun 1, 2006 4591
Bewaarder van die stilte: Gedagtes oor J.M. Coetzee se etiek van skryf. Anker, Willem Critical essay Jun 1, 2006 11080
Translating in high fidelity/Traducir en alta fidelidad: with unfalling respect for the original text, Rolando Costa Ricazo has produced definitive Spanish editions of works by some of the greatest British and U.S. writers. Durbin, Paula Mar 1, 2006 2135
The Bellamy charades. Wortman, Doris Nash Feb 1, 2006 1199
Ernest Hemingway. Pidgeon, John A. Jan 1, 2006 1713
Unscientific methods. Sanchez, Julian Interview Jan 1, 2006 429
Those handing out the Nobel prizes have outdone themselves. Brief Article Nov 7, 2005 207
Why Americans can't write political fiction. Lehmann, Christopher Critical Essay Oct 1, 2005 4936
Turning daydreams into a best-seller. Interview Sep 19, 2005 213
Hunter S. Thompson, the counterculture's favorite writer, who shuffled off this mortal coil six months ago by firing a bullet into his drug-addled brain, has finally been laid to rest in an appropriately eccentric style. Obituary Sep 12, 2005 159
Roman fever: Petronius' Satyricon and Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar. Endres, Nikolai Critical essay Jan 1, 2005 18268
Surveillance & yearning: the art of Henry von Doussa. Nestle, Joan Critical essay Jan 1, 2005 1183
On a lighter side with Andy Rooney. Jan 1, 2004 638

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