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David Byrne and the Curse of Lifestyle
Lately I’ve been noting an interesting linguistic phenomenon: the all-purpose word. You come across it most often…
Office Plaza, Sunday Morning
The blue garage can be itself again.The cars have gonedown roads no live things dareto run. Machines…
Drugs and the Face of Evil
One of the least understood aspects of the drug problem is the degree to which it is…
Super Flumina Babylonis, or, Outside the Mainstream
Readers of the New York Times, which Alasdair MacIntyre has called “that parish magazine of affluent and self-congratulatory…
Middle East Apocalypse Now?
Saddam Hussein’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait may have thrown the world economy into confusion, but it…
Scene From a Living Room
In that house of quiet dying, through still sheers that turn the day to gray, only two…
America Through Foreign Eyes
Americans: The View From Abroad by james c. simmons crown, 239 pages, $19.95 A zealous convert once…
Binx and the Malaise
I heard the news in late May as I was walking into the Sno-White Cafe here in…
November Poem
Leaves no wind could wrench from earlier trees, in this windstill now let go. Their fall is…
The Uses of Homophobia
The best way to win an argument is to control the terms of discussion. Any high school…
The Organbuilders
The name of the one organbuilder was Craft, the other Dream, both descendants of an ur-figure. Creation. To graft metal…
After the Wedding: Diving Off Isla Mujeres
It’s been three days now. We continue to find splinters of rice clinging to our scalps; piercing no skin…
Nine Numbers
On card after card he sees it. Along with a harsh identity photograph And his preposterous signature, A black line…
Hank Gathers and Cultural Christianity
When the Loyola Marymount basketball team, riding the crest of an emotional high after the death of…
The Orthodox Jew as Intellectual Crank
My subject is “The Orthodox Jew as Intellectual Crank,” and it would be best if I began…
