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Arts & Letters Daily (03 Jul 2009)

Forty years ago, when men walked on the Moon and drove their buggies over the lunar landscape, we all lived on a different earth... more
Have religious people at last worked out how to serve both God and Mammon? Is ours the age of the "pastorpreneur"?... more
Our very own Philosopher-in-Chief. It's been a long time, but maybe Americans are entitled to one. Carlin Romano on Barack Obama... more
Arts & Letters Daily (02 Jul 2009)

Stripper memoirs. It's puzzling that such promising and prurient subject matter can lead to such flat, dull books. Katie Roiphe explains... more

Saturated with lachrymose melodies, dirgelike rhythms and the ghastly, fatal oompahs of sad waltzes, the songs and symphonies of Gustav Mahler... more
In 1942, Simon and Schuster's well-made and beautifully illustrated Little Golden Books burst upon the American scene. It was the start of something big... more