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Louis Menand is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard. His books include The Marketplace of Ideas, American Studies and The Metaphysical Club.
Goblin Market
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
a film directed by Peter Jackson
January 17, 2002 issue
The Socrates of Cambridge
The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright
edited by Frank X. Ryan
April 26, 2001 issue
Billion-Dollar Baby
Star Wars: Episode I
The Phantom Menace
a film by George Lucas
June 24, 1999 issue
William James & the Case of the Epileptic Patient
Genuine Reality: A Life of William James
by Linda Simon
William James Remembered
edited by Linda Simon
The Thought and Character of William James
by Ralph Barton Perry, with an introduction by Charlene Haddock Seigfried
Manhood at Harvard: William James and Others
by Kim Townsend
The Correspondence of William James
edited by Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley
Volume 4, 1856-1877
Volume 5, 1878-1884
Volume 6, 1885-1889
December 17, 1998 issue
Jerry Don’t Surf
Saving Private Ryan
a film directed by Steven Spielberg, screenplay by Robert Rodat
September 24, 1998 issue
Not Getting the Lesson of the Master
Washington Square
a film directed by Agnieszka Holland
The Wings of the Dove
a film directed by Iain Softley
December 4, 1997 issue
Inside the Billway
Locked in the Cabinet
by Robert B. Reich
Whatever It Takes: The Real Struggle for Political Power in America
by Elizabeth Drew
Trail Fever: Spin Doctors, Rented Strangers, Thumb Wrestlers, Toe Suckers, Grizzly Bears, and Other Creatures on the Road to the White House
by Michael Lewis
August 14, 1997 issue
Made in the USA
American Visions Time, Inc., in association with Thirteen/WNET, PBS
by Robert Hughes. an eight-part television documentary produced by BBC Television and
American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America
by Robert Hughes
June 26, 1997 issue
How Eliot Became Eliot
Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917
by T.S. Eliot, edited by Christopher Ricks
The Waste Land, the 75th anniversary edition
by T.S. Eliot, with an afterword by Christopher Ricks
May 15, 1997 issue
Born Free
What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation
by Charles Murray
February 20, 1997 issue
It’s a Wonderful Life
The People vs. Larry Flynt
a film by Milos Forman
The People vs. Larry Flynt: The Shooting Script
by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. with an afterword by Milos Forman
An Unseemly Man: My Life as Pornographer, Pundit, and Social Outcast
by Larry Flynt, with Kenneth Ross
February 6, 1997 issue
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