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Louis Menand

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

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

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December 17, 1998 issue

Jerry Don’t Surf

Jerry Don’t Surf

Saving Private Ryan

a film directed by Steven Spielberg, screenplay by Robert Rodat

September 24, 1998 issue

Inside the Billway

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

Entropology

Mason & Dixon

by Thomas Pynchon

June 12, 1997 issue

How Eliot Became Eliot

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

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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