Arts & Culture
Who needs Roman imperial fantasies?
After watching Gladiator II, I turned elsewhere for a more joyful model of masculinity.
The women who would be war heroes
Kristin Hannah’s novel is based on military nurses’ firsthand accounts of their experiences in Vietnam.
Pages soaked in mystery
Rebecca McCarthy traces Norman Maclean’s poetic sensibilities from his University of Chicago classroom to A River Runs Through It.
Yes, My Grace Is Insufferable
You think everyone’s a Raca these days, a tailgating, line-cutting, spam- blasting fool stumbling in a haze...
Quinquagenarian
The month I turned fifty, I ate pear and violets, a milk-soaked custard cake. On the waterfront, ...
Interrogation
Corporal Knobloch, was it you who smuggled letters out of prison from Bonhoeffer to a friend? ...
After every election, I turn to Tolstoy
His challenges to the left and right alike are devastating and timely.