John Lennon's Mourners by Dorothy Rabinowitz Within hours of the news of John Lennon's murder last December, it became clear that an event was in the…
Deformations of the Holocaust by Robert Alter Over the last year and a half, there has been a growing debate on what stance Jews should assume collectively…
Economic Welfare in the Soviet Union, by Alastair McAuley; Social and Economic Inequality in the Soviet Union, by Murray Yanowit by Steven Plaut Imagine a society with a wide disparity of incomes and wealth; where people in the top 10 percent earn three…
Games Writers Play by Pearl K. Bell Iris Murdoch has for many years been considered one of the major women novelists in the English-speaking world, along with…
John Lennon’s Mourners by Dorothy Rabinowitz Within hours of the news of John Lennon's murder last December, it became clear that an event was in the…
Lectures on Literature, by Vladimir Nabokov by Jeffrey Meyers The novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), self-exiled from Russia at the age of twenty, was-with Einstein and Mann, Huxley and Auden,…
Lewis Namier and Zionism, by Norman Rose by Jack N. Rakove Perhaps the most celebrated cri de coeur in modern historical writing occurs in the opening chapter of Lewis Namier's study…
Pity the Poor Russians? by Walter Z. Laqueur Aside from a few choice spirits, the Western world had never taken any interest in Poland. Recent discussions in the…
Radical Principles, by Michael Walzer by Michael Novak The author of earlier books on the Puritan Revolution, civil disobedience, and war, Michael Walzer has been since 1960 an…
The Aging of the New Wave by Richard Grenier It was a historic event of sorts. The twentieth anniversary of the birth of the French New Wave, or Nouvelle…
Theater and Revolution: The Culture of the French Stage, by Frederick Brown by Stephen Miller The theater has never been an important force in American culture, but in France, as Frederick Brown makes clear in…
Toward an Immigration Policy by Samuel Rabinove Last March, President Carter signed into law the Refugee Act of 1980, which authorized an increase in the number of…
Walt Whitman: A Life, by Justin Kaplan by Kenneth S. Lynn The best opportunity a biographer has for appreciating Walt Whitman's unfolding sense of himself lies in the careful examination of…
Why Madame Bovary Couldn’t Make Love in the Concrete by Joseph Epstein Poor Madame Bovary, one understands and sympathizes with her condition. It is very awkward-if not so awkward as that of…
“Joining the Jackals” by Daniel P. Moynihan The view in the White House was that things were going well until March 1, when Ambassador Donald F. McHenry…
