FROM THE MAGAZINE

September 2021

Books

What Richard Scarry did all day

Dick loved a friendly contest with the woke and PC crowd of yore

By Calla Jones Corner

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Podcasts

Dad’s the word

Podcasts are the perfect environment to create parasocial connections

By Jessa Crispin

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Book Review

The odd couple: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate reviewed

By Anne Margaret Daniel

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To appreciate Finnegans Wake you must hear its sounds and rhythms

Even if many of the themes are elusive on first listening, the language explodes

By Rachel Redford

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Film

Fatty Arbuckle’s fall

Arbuckle was an accidental pioneer of cancel culture

By Christopher Sandford

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Art

The art of politics: what ministers hang on their walls

The people have a right to know what’s on Boris’s wall

By Laura Freeman

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Television

Perry Mason was America’s Sherlock Holmes

Perry Mason personified the country that won World War Two and was enjoying well-deserved prosperity

By Chilton Williamson, Jr.

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Film

Somebody’s watching me

All Light, Everywhere reviewed

By Nicky Otis Smith

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Book Review

A fatal clash of civilizations

Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest by Fernando Cervantes reviewed

By Daniel Rey

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Books

A letter to George Steiner

George Steiner was easier to admire than to love

By Frederic Raphael

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