The Crooner and the Physicist
Jacques Brel and The New Yorker profile that never reached critical mass
By Jeremy Bernstein Wednesday, December 1, 2004
One Bad Husband
What the “Bluebeard” story tells us about marriage
By Alison Lurie Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Secrets Behind the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives By Maria Tatar
The Industrial-Strength Humanist
J. Irwin Miller knew how to get things built
By Robert Campbell Wednesday, December 1, 2004
The Glue Is Gone
The things that held us together as individuals and as a people are being lost. Can we find them again?
By Edward Hoagland Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Thoreau’s Landscape Within
How he came to know nature, and through it came to know himself
By Kent C. Ryden Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Natural Life: Thoreau’s Worldly Transcendentalism By David M. Robinson
Rocket Men
A daughter explores the male-dominated universe of her father
By Michael Upchurch Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science By M. G. Lord
Class Warfare
It is wrong that America’s most privileged families have abandoned military service
By Josiah Bunting III Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Two Formalists
Remembering Thom Gunn and Anthony Hecht
By Langdon Hammer Wednesday, December 1, 2004
