Sheer Data
Sinclair Lewis's great accomplishment was, as E. M. Forster marveled, "to lodge a piece of a continent in our imagination"
Book Review
New & Noteworthy
The Iliad anew; Ved Mehta on the couch; Andrea Barrett blends exactitude and compassion
William Kennedy's Greatest Game
Roscoe has a lyricism and a gusto rarely achieved in serious American novels about politics
The Land of Counterpane
Jan Karon lets her readers pull the covers over their heads
Mr. Goodbar Redux
Illusions. Affectation. Lies. This is the insidious and incapacitating legacy of modern dating books
Incomparable Naturalism
Only an artificer of the highest skill could have produced so seamless an illusion of reality
A Quiet Genius
Alice Munro is the living writer most likely to be read in a hundred years.
One-Alarm Fire
U.S. counterterrorism may be overly preoccupied with biological weapons—which have a rather poor track record
Costumes from Camelot
Jacqueline Kennedy's true style lay in the ways she allied her femininity with her tremendous strength
The New Counterculture
The rapid growth of the home-schooling movement owes much to the energy and organizational skills of its Christian advocates