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The Martian landscape, 1997

On to Mars?

An astronaut makes the case for exploration.

BY JOSHUA GELERNTER

October 21 - October 28, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 07

John Updike, 1994

Teller of Tales

The definitive Updike, in two volumes.

BY WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD

October 21 - October 28, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 07

Theodore Roosevelt and friends, 1905

Paradox of the Book

The chaos of the Internet makes reading easier.

BY THOMAS L. JEFFERS

October 21 - October 28, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 07

Glitter Gulch cowgirl

Wattage Industry

There’s more to urban lighting than illumination.

BY ELISABETH EAVES

October 21 - October 28, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 07

Couple

Literary Postcards

The writer’s vocation in J. F. Powers’s correspondence.

BY JOSEPH BOTTUM

October 21 - October 28, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 07

Presidents at Leisure

Presidents at Leisure

Two centuries of lightening the burden.

BY SONNY BUNCH

October 21 - October 28, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 07

Eddie Chapman (‘Agent Zigzag’) in disguise

Bodyguard of Lies

A trilogy on military deception.

BY EDWIN M. YODER JR.

October 21 - October 28, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 07

Franklin Pierce, 1857

Less Is More

In the presidency, obscurity is not the same as unimportance.

BY MICHAEL ROSEN

October 21 - October 28, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 07

Michael Burleigh

Turned Upside Down

The end of World War II meant the end of empires.

BY ALONZO L. HAMBY

October 21 - October 28, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 07

Bird Brains

Bird Brains

The hidden life, and surprising depth, of the avian mind.

BY DAVID GUASPARI

October 21 - October 28, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 07

Artist at work, Greenwich Village, ca. 1935

It Takes a Village

Bohemia at the bottom of Manhattan.

BY FRED SIEGEL

October 21 - October 28, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 07

Lone Star Power

Lone Star Power

William McKenzie

BY WILLIAM MCKENZIE

October 21 - October 28, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 07

Kim Jong-un (second from left) takes a salute, September 9, 2013.

Leader Dearest

How the Kim dynasty preserves its power.

BY GORDON G. CHANG

October 14, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 06

George Green

Vein of Irony

The world as the poet sees it, through a glass lightly.

BY JULIANNE DUDLEY

October 14, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 06

Albert Gallatin at the Treasury Department

The Money Men

How immigrants invented an American economy.

BY KEVIN R. KOSAR

October 14, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 06

Red Smith at ringside, Ali-Liston fight, Lewiston, Maine, 1965

Master of the Games

The shrewd eye, and elegant prose, of Red Smith.

BY JOSEPH EPSTEIN

October 14, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 06

Tony Danza, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Jersey? Sure .  .  .

A California vision of love in the Garden State.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

October 14, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 06

Vincent Price strangling Basil Rathbone in ‘Tales of Terror’ (1962)

The Horror, the Horror

Thirty-eight centuries of supernatural lit.

BY MICHAEL DIRDA

October 7, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 05

Valerie Plame, 2010

Undercover Novelist

Fiction as weapon of mass destruction.

BY JUDY BACHRACH

October 7, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 05

At the Livadia Palace, Yalta, 1945

Stalin’s Cold War

The Soviet dictator, all by himself, was the cause.

BY RONALD RADOSH

October 7, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 05

James Gandolfini, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Two Quiet Lives

A near-perfect tale set in less-than-glamorous Los Angeles.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

October 7, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 05

associated press

The Lost Cause

A reporter remembers the agony of South Vietnam.

BY DAVID AIKMAN

October 7, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 05

With Fred Astaire, 1937

Fidgety Feet

The energy, and ingenuity, of Hermes Pan.

BY KATE LIGHT

October 7, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 05

Sir William Howe

Dispirit of ’76

The American Revolution as seen from the other side.

BY EDWARD SHORT

September 30, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 04

mondadori / getty images

Sincerely, George Orwell

The correspondence of a ‘wintry conscience.’

BY ELIZABETH POWERS

September 30, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 04

George Balanchine, Allegra Kent, 1958

Mystery Partner

In search of an early Balanchine ‘muse.’

BY PETER TONGUETTE

September 30, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 04

Sidney Hook, Seymour Martin Lipset

Warfare of Ideas

There is an alternative to Obama diplomacy.

BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS

September 30, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 04

Thing of Beauty

Ava Gardner as metaphor.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

September 30, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 04

Colin Fleming

Hearts of Darkness

Postcards from a surreal landscape.

BY PARKER BAUER

September 30, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 04

And Bébé Makes Three

And Bebé Makes Three

Good marketing=bad movie, plus kicker.

BY JOHN PODHORETZ

September 23, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 03

‘The Black Prince invested as a Knight of the Garter’  by Charles West Cope

On Their Honor

The thriving of the medieval cult of chivalry.

BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN

September 23, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 03

‘Crawford’s constant refrain that “Comcast=bad” tends to overpower the reader.’

Bandwidth on the Run

On the entrance ramps to the information superhighway.

BY JAMES BOLOGNA

September 23, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 03

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