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The Jaundiced Eyeball
The Ass and the Lap Dogs
Like any well-trained lap dog, our national political press is rallying to the unique challenge of covering an incoming American president …
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Selected Salvos
Thin Skins and Missing Parents
“Will the left survive the millennials?” novelist Lionel Shriver recently asked readers of the New York Times opinion page. She posed …
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Online Essays
Decent Drapery
The first time it happened was a sunny afternoon early in the spring just after Barack Obama’s inauguration. I was fetching …
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Stories
Brother
Let’s call him Brother. He walked into one of the cash-only coffee shops on Valencia Street, which was crowded with white …
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Books
Cotton Tenants: Three Families
A rediscovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer. In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let …