The Quiet Sideman

Tenor saxist ‘Chu’ Berry emerged from the pack at the end of his short life

Alone at the Movies

My days in the dark with Robert Altman and Woody Allen

Gratitude

Vienna: Trapped in a Golden Age

Response to Our Autumn Issue

Moonbow

Balanchine’s Cabinet

A young woman wins a drawing and learns to give and to receive

Subjectivity Is All

Using a lifetime of colorful examples to define the undefinable

Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond By Peter Gay

The Casserole Inquisition

Chronicles from America’s culinary transformation

The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food By Judith Jones

Wry Eye on the Bard

Sorting through the little we know about the best we’ve got

Shakespeare: The World as Stage By Bill Bryson

The Long Hall

Two Poems

Who Cares About Executive Supremacy?

The scope of presidential power is the most urgent and the most ignored legal and political issue of our time

Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity

The first code of conduct during warfare, created by a Civil War–era Prussian immigrant, reflected ambiguities we struggle with to this day

The Work of Death

How the Civil War changed forever Americans’ relationship with mortality

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War By Drew Gilpin Faust

On the Road to Nowhere

Tom Stoppard’s Russian intellectuals take a wrong turn with Hegel, just as Edmund Wilson once did with Marx

Dreaming of a Democratic Russia

Memories of a year in Moscow promoting a post-Soviet political process, an undertaking that now seems futile

The Daily Miracle

Life with the mavericks and oddballs at the Herald Tribune

The Leap

Cuss Time

By limiting freedom of expression, we take away thoughts and ideas before they have the opportunity to hatch

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