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Monday, August 11, 2025

The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin by Louis Menand

An older generation dismissed him as passé; a newer one has recast him as a secular saint. But Baldwin's true message remains more unsettling than either camp recognizes.

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Monday, February 1, 2021

Who Was Mike Nichols When He Wasn't Playing Mike Nichols? by Louis Menand

An intuitive storyteller, the director perfected narratives"including his own.

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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Why We Are No Longer Shocked by "Ulysses" by Louis Menand

Not many verbal artifacts are cooler than the first edition of James Joyce's "Ulysses," which was published, in Paris, on February 2, 1922, the author's fortieth birthday. As is standard for…

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