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H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Painted fire

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Newspapers, women, and beer

by H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken,

The stream and the self

by Paul Murphy Pickrel,

Mencken and the Mercury

by William Raymond Manchester,

Mencken and the twenties

by William Raymond Manchester,

From the eighties to the twenties

by Richard Halworth Rovere,

Fluent narcissists–and others

by Jacques Barzun,

The New Books

by John Chamberlain,

Personal and otherwise

by Harper’s Staff,

Capitalism, liberalism, flight

by Edward Sandford Martin,

This vulgarity of ours

by Katharine Fullerton Gerould,