Essays

The Scholar in Distant Perspective

By Jacques Barzun | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

A Skull in Varanasi, A Head in Baghdad

By Soraya van Dillen | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

The Founder of Empires

By D. Graham Burnett | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

On the Bus

By Vivian Gornick | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Intermittences of the Heart

By Peter Gay | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

The Class Egoist

By David Michaelis | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Ye New Corporate Model

By David Levering Lewis | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Crossing Over

By David Samuels | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Numerologies

By Vijay Sheshadri | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Moving On

By Franklin Burroughs | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Joyas Voladoras

Revisiting an ode to the heart by one of our best-loved writers

By Brian Doyle | Tuesday, June 12, 2012

The Thanksgiving Table

By Anne Fadiman | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Mowing

By Nicholson Baker | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Taking Leave

By André Bernard | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Henry James, Tolstoy, and My First Novel

By Cynthia Ozick | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Here’s Looking at You

By Arthur Krystal | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Love in a Box

By Andrew Hudgins | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

An Oil on Canvas

By John Updike | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Reaching Point Comfort

By Adam Goodheart | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Un Clown Biologique

By Carlo Rotella | Wednesday, September 1, 2004

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