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Literary Talk

About forty years ago, in a high-school English class, I learned that talking about literature, like talking about yourself, incurs some small dangers of self-revelation, even though literary talk is…

Standing up for the banana

by Robert M. Moore,

Design for a New Academy

by Frederick W. Turner,

An end to division by department

AIDS stories

by John Weir,

The Agnew clinic

Art by Thomas Eakins,

The age of the ghost writer

by Geoffrey H. Hartman,

Morality and the judge

by Robert H. Bork,

The degradation of work and the apotheosis of art

by Christopher Lasch,

Two acts

by Carol Tavris,

Englishmen and Americans don't speak the same language on stage

Repealing the Enlightenment

by Gene Lyons,

The biggest thing in Arkansas since Creation--and when was that, by the way?

Plato in Vermont

by Hugh Kenner,

The ideal tree, and how to count it