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Distant Mirrors

by Christopher Carroll,

One hundred seventy-five years of rupture and revolution

The Mild Revolutionary

by Matthew Karp,

On Henry Jarvis Raymond

Words Fail Norman Mailer

by Alexandra Wolfe,

From a September 2023 entry in Air Mail. My dad, Tom Wolfe, delighted in defending his style of writing and had no qualms about throwing barbs at other writers. In…

Tests of Time

by Christopher Beha,

Among the many things disrupted by the spread of the novel coronavirus and the global mobilization against it has been our sense of time. In part, this is simply the…