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Prufrock: The Fury of Modern Architecture, Frankenstein at 200, and Luck in Scrabble

Micah Mattix

4 Min Read
Last Lines

Alice B. Lloyd
A Valediction

John Podhoretz
Great Escapes

Hannah Long
Prophecies and Prices

Ian Marcus Corbin
Of Fairies and Dragons

Clare Coffey
Waiting for Gounod

Algis Valiunas
The Last Roman Poet

John Talbot
Learning to Argue

Ian Lindquist

6 Min Read
Trump and Detroit

Richard Burr

7 Min Read
‘Deaths of Despair’

Philip Luke Jeffery

7 Min Read
The Fuel That Wouldn’t Die

Tony Mecia

5 Min Read
A Crisis That Hasn’t Happened

Jack Goldsmith

8 Min Read
Restoring Congress’s Brain

Adam Keiper

5 Min Read
France Reminds Us, Not For the First Time, That the Center Doesn’t Always Hold

Philip Terzian

4 Min Read
Let’s Not Repeat the Crime Waves of the Past

Fred Barnes

4 Min Read
Schadenfreude for Beginners

Stephen Miller

15 Min Read
Trump's New, Reliable Chief of Staff
A Fine Mess

The Editors

3 Min Read
Lubitsch in Our Day

James Bowman
Beyond the Bleak Midwinter

Joseph Bottum

3 Min Read
Who Are These People?

The Scrapbook

1 Min Read
This Year's Oscar Host

Michael Ramirez

1 Min Read