FROM THE MAGAZINE

March 2021

Place

Time for Tudorbethan

Tudor architecture marked the first instance of Anglo domesticity recognizable today

By Chadwick Moore

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Home

Steve Hawley and the case for two New Yorks

Should the state of New York be divided into two states?

By Bill Kauffman

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Home

The New American Language

Words and phrases we could do without

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Low Life

In praise of nuns

When the nuns begin to sing, their soaring, piercing voices make you look for a microphone

By Jeremy Clarke

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Where did ‘decuman’ come from?

Ovid and Lucan used decumanus, he found, of a wave, but not absolutely, as a noun

By Dot Wordsworth

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High Life

My unlikely friendship with Sir David Barclay

One more of the good guys is now gone

By Taki

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Eccentric, artist and storyteller: in memory of my mother Doreen Sanders

She would live on mushrooms for a month, then put us up in the finest Parisian hotel

By Aidan Hartley

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