Magazine

March 11, 2016

v.143 n.5

Article

The Zen of Tolstoy

"War and Peace" is called the greatest novel ever written, but it’s like sticking a “Kick me” sign on the book. Readers can’t help wanting to take issue with it.

By Christoper Bram

March 1, 2016

Book Essay

Books

Article

Padre Pio under Glass

The body of Padre Pio was recently paraded through Rome in a glass coffin, followed by thousands. What is it that makes people gather around a desiccated corpse?

By Paul Baumann

February 29, 2016

Pope Francis

Religious Life

Article

From the Russian, with Love

Why are there more versions of 'Anna Karenina' (1878) in 2016? According to some translators "the best" will never be available and so translation must continue.

By Richard Cohen

February 25, 2016

Books

Fiction

Article

Last Word: Carried Away

My mother was like a hermit crab who was busy moving out of its shell, and then only the shell was left. “Enjoy it, dear,” she said. She took to staring at the sky.

February 25, 2016

Article

Poem | On the Radio I Heard This Storm

...then my attention came to rest again / on the reaching-me-clearly breaking / voice of a woman testifying // she thought fireworks / were going off in a theater...

By Brandon Krieg

February 25, 2016

Poetry

Article

Letters | Canned Thomism, public-sector unions

A reader writes in about being "bombarded with everything from Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Aquinas" in college, and a law professor corrects the editors on labor laws.

By The Editors

February 25, 2016

Letters

Article

'Where to Invade Next'

Michael Moore tours the social democracies of Europe, assembling a piecemeal progressive utopia and contrasting it with the bleakness on our side of the Atlantic.

By Rand Richards Cooper

February 25, 2016

Movies

Article

An Original

Antonin Scalia’s impact on the Court was mixed. He will be remembered more for the flamboyance of his dissents than for the reach of his majority opinions.

By The Editors

February 25, 2016

Article

Among the Caucus-Goers

Imaginary American flags, ballots on sticky notes, turkey dressing sandwiches, and beer: Two Iowa caucus-goers with their first-hand accounts of democracy in action.

By Christopher Budzisz and David Carroll Cochran

February 2, 2016

Domestic Affairs

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March 11, 2016

Article

The Zen of Tolstoy

Article

Padre Pio under Glass

Article

From the Russian, with Love

Article

Last Word: Carried Away

Article

Poem | On the Radio I Heard This Storm

Article

Letters | Canned Thomism, public-sector unions

Article

'Where to Invade Next'

Article

An Original

Article

Among the Caucus-Goers

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