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September 13, 2010Vol. 15, No. 48
Commie Dearest The tangled web of the KGB and the Eitingon clan.

BY Stephen Schwartz

Mysteries of Israel Four unexpected thrillers from the Jewish state.

BY Abby Wisse Schachter

Secret Splendor Pictures from the Counter-Reformation in Protestant Holland.

BY Andrew Cusack

The Age of Shatner From ‘Star Trek’ to ‘the greatest TV star the medium has yet produced.’

BY John Podhoretz

Vintage Virginians The palatable saga of wine in America.

BY Susie Powell Currie

Young Poets in Love The romance of the Romantics.

BY Sara Lodge

August 30 - September 6, 2010Vol. 15, No. 47
Laughing Detective Charlie Chan and his creator get a scholarly makeover.

BY Jon L. Breen

Maugham’s the Word Popular and literary and vice versa.

BY Terry Teachout

Queen of Hearts The life and times of a royal icon.

BY Edward Short

Richards Galore Close encounters with the bad boys of cinema.

BY Cynthia Grenier

Rough Cut The movies and the Holocaust are an awkward fit.

BY John Podhoretz

Shouting the Blues A color-coded breakdown of the American family.

BY Eve Tushnet

Thursday’s Father The cosmos in the mind of G. K. Chesterton.

BY Dawn Eden

Yankee Go Home The Ugly American is alive and well and working for peace.

BY Lauren Weiner

August 23, 2010Vol. 15, No. 46
Castelli’s Art The connoisseur-dealer who commanded the market.

BY James Gardner

Living Will It’s best to bestow when the going is good.

BY Martin Morse Wooster

No Mystery Here Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare’s plays

BY John Simon

Sticks, Stones, Words The academic study of literature is theoretical.

BY James Seaton

Yesterday’s Man Whatever happened to George C. Scott?

BY John Podhoretz

August 16, 2010Vol. 15, No. 45
A Sensual Journey The enfant terrible channels the scoundrel par excellence.

BY Susanne Klingenstein

French Connection The unintended comedy of a Cold War drama.

BY John Podhoretz

Go to the Sources The religious components of Enlightenment thought.

BY David Klinghoffer

Man With a Plan What Moses did for New York.

BY Helen Rittelmeyer

Maryland’s Patriot The life and times of the only Catholic signer.

BY Patrick J. Walsh

The Diplo-Terrorist Tall tales from a Taliban apologist.

BY Ann Marlowe

August 9, 2010Vol. 15, No. 44
America Mapped How the Old World saw the New World in perspective.

BY Lawrence Klepp

Cities of Tomorrow The future of urban America is horizontal.

BY William McKenzie

Dead in the Water The Age of Irony won’t grow up

BY David Gelernter

God Help Us The conquest of disbelief in the midst of the modern world.

BY Joseph Loconte

Over the Transom Chilling tales from the literary slush pile.

BY Joe Queenan

The Truman Show Sometimes a piece of pop fluff is just that.

BY John Podhoretz

August 2, 2010Vol. 15, No. 43
Art of Madrid The lesser-known wonders of the Spanish capital.

BY Mark Falcoff

Fox’s Nightowl Greg Gutfeld, subversive.

BY Andrew Ferguson

Free to Choose The 70-30 solution to the new culture war.

BY Ryan T. Anderson

Head Shots A nightmare about real and imaginary dreams.

BY John Podhoretz

Primate Primer Uneasy lies the head of the Anglican Communion.

BY Mark Tooley

Tragedy at Sea Military tribunals, 18th-century style.

BY Joseph F. Callo

July 26, 2010Vol. 15, No. 42
Disloyal Opposition Anarchists are finally organized—between two covers.

BY Harvey Klehr

Farce Gone Wrong A problem in translation from French to Hollywoodese.

BY John Podhoretz

Farewell, Olympia? Tight budgets may yet sink Admiral Dewey’s flagship.

BY Shawn Macomber

Herself Remembered Beryl Bainbridge, 1932-2010.

BY John Wilson

Piggy’s Back The case for William Golding

BY Michael Dirda

Rough Diamonds How baseball was played in the late 20th century.

BY David Guaspari

July 19, 2010Vol. 15, No. 41
Cases in Point Understanding the rules of law and the laws of rhetoric.

BY James Seaton

Odysseus at Home The travels are over but the adventure goes on.

BY Bryant Kirkland

Out and About Self-consciously hip, disappointingly conventional.

BY John Podhoretz

The Dreyfus Wars They were fought on several fronts.

BY Christopher Hitchens

Truer Than Fiction Brideshead re-revisited.

BY Henrik Bering

July 5 - July 12, 2010Vol. 15, No. 40
Classical America How early America was indebted to Rome.

BY David Wharton

Guilt-Edged Tale A contemporary crime awakens historical memory.

BY Abby Wisse Schachter

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