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Cover Story

Justice for Sale

How big money is overwhelming judicial elections and corroding our confidence in the courts

Cover Story

Justice for Sale

How big money is overwhelming judicial elections and corroding our confidence in the courts

ARTICLES

The Right Honourable Mr. Burke

Impassioned orator, eloquent statesman, esteemed writer—but who was Edmund Burke the man?

Living With Voices

A new way to deal with disturbing voices offers hope for those with other forms of psychosis

A Feast of Fat Things

After umpteen years of living in America, an English writer gives thanks for its salient pleasures

Yellow Journalist

Confessions of a novice writer at the New York Post

Rites of Passage

When a quirky old man who lived on the Cape died, I thought I didn’t care

The Right Honourable Mr. Burke

Impassioned orator, eloquent statesman, esteemed writer—but who was Edmund Burke the man?

Living With Voices

A new way to deal with disturbing voices offers hope for those with other forms of psychosis

A Feast of Fat Things

After umpteen years of living in America, an English writer gives thanks for its salient pleasures

Yellow Journalist

Confessions of a novice writer at the New York Post

Rites of Passage

When a quirky old man who lived on the Cape died, I thought I didn’t care

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

My Life as a Door

Not exactly Yeats, but noteworthy nonetheless

Book essay

An Unquenchable Gaiety of Mind

On visits to Cambridge University late in life, Jorge Luis Borges offered revealing last thoughts about his reading and writing

book reviews

Risky Journeys

A cautionary tale of quixotic ambition and heroic achievement

Coming of Age

Three bright young American women in the City of Light

Cradle to Grave

The games we play and the arguments we have

Con Man

A writer catalogs his great-grandfather’s infamous crimes

Artful Lies

A deception signals a new age