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The Baroness of bebop
“Bird in the Baroness’s Boudoir.” For Nica de Koenigswarter, eccentric jazz hound, life got complicated when Charlie Parker died at her house… more»
Rodgers and Hart’s dysfunctional partnership
Before Rodgers ran with Hammerstein, he worked with Lorenz Hart – a generous, ebullient gnome of a man, and a desperate drunk… more»
Left-wing stranglehold on academia
Neil Gross has gathered the data, and now the results are in. College professor is the most-liberal occupation in America. Surprised, right?… more»
Sergei Prokofiev’s wife
Lina Codina – beautiful, polyglot, soprano – had every reason to expect a bright future. Ah, but then she married Sergei Prokofiev… more»
Reason, emotion, and Hitler
How do we, or should we, react to Hitler? With cool, calculated reason? Or rage and moral fervor? Yes and yes. Carlin Romano explains… more»
Letters of William Styron
William Styron’s letters are a catalog of phobias and preoccupations. The latter includes money, race relations, and sex. The chief phobia: literary critics… more»
On Charles Jackson
What’s it like to be a good writer who dreams of being a genius? Agony, for Charles Jackson, who chose to end his booze-addled life… more»
Art of making magazines
What is a magazine now? Innovation and stagnation, paper and pixels, relevant and obsolete: Magazines are enduring an awkward phase… more»
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On C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis was a giant of science fiction and Christian apology. But what of his literary scholarship, or his marriage to an American gold digger?… more»
On David Cannadine
Historians are dividers, rabble-rousers, us-and-them style thinkers who separate mankind into rival factions. Or so argues David Cannadine… more»