Louis Menand is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of Discovering Modernism, The Metaphysical Club, American Studies, and The Marketplace of Ideas.
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Edmund Wilson’s Vanished World
September 23, 2004
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Goblin Market
January 17, 2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring a film directed by Peter Jackson
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College: The End of the Golden Age
October 18, 2001
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The Socrates of Cambridge
April 26, 2001
The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright edited by Frank X. Ryan
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Bloom’s Gift
May 25, 2000
Ravelstein
by Saul Bellow
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A Fine Detachment
March 9, 2000
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Opening Moves
December 2, 1999
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Kubrick’s Strange Love
August 12, 1999
Eyes Wide Shut a film by Stanley Kubrick
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Billion-Dollar Baby
June 24, 1999
Star Wars: Episode IThe Phantom Menace a film by George Lucas
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The Strange Case of William James: An Exchange
April 8, 1999
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William James & the Case of the Epileptic Patient
December 17, 1998
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, by Elizabeth M. Berkeley
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Beat the Devil
October 22, 1998
The Time of Our Time
by Norman Mailer
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Jerry Don’t Surf
September 24, 1998
Saving Private Ryan a film directed by Steven Spielberg, screenplay by Robert Rodat
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Not Getting the Lesson of the Master
December 4, 1997
Washington Square a film directed by Agnieszka Holland
The Wings of the Dove a film directed by Iain Softley
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Inside the Billway
August 14, 1997
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
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Made in the USA
June 26, 1997
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
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Entropology
June 12, 1997
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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How Eliot Became Eliot
May 15, 1997
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
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Born Free
February 20, 1997
What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation by Charles Murray
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It’s a Wonderful Life
February 6, 1997
The People vs. Larry Flynt a film by Milos Forman
The People vs. Larry Flynt: The Shooting Script by Scott Alexander, by 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
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Between Planes
January 9, 1997
Airframe by Michael Crichton
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Dole’s Three Strikes
November 14, 1996
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Pound, Eliot, & Anti-Semitism
October 17, 1996
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Hollywood’s Trap
September 19, 1996
The Nutty Professor a film by Tom Shadyac
Independence Day a film by Roland Emmerich
Mission: Impossible a film by Brian De Palma
The Rock a film by Michael Bay
Twister a film by Jan De Bont
The Cable Guy a film by Ben Stiller
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Eliot and the Jews
June 6, 1996
T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form by Anthony Julius
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What Jane Austen Doesn’t Tell Us
February 1, 1996
Sense and Sensibility a film directed by Ang Lee, screenplay by Emma Thompson
Persuasion a film directed by Roger Michell, screenplay by Nick Dear
Clueless a film directed by Amy Heckerling, screenplay by Amy Heckerling
Pride and Prejudice 1996 directed by Simon Langton, screenplay by Andrew Davies. produced by BBC Television Arts and Entertainment, January 1416,
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen’s Novel to Film by Emma Thompson
The Making of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Sue Birtwistle, by Susie Conklin
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Journey into the Dark
July 13, 1995
The Tunnel by William H. Gass
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Under Western Eyes
April 20, 1995
Our Game by John le Carré
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Finding It at the Movies
March 23, 1995
For Keeps by Pauline Kael
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Culture Wars
November 17, 1994
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‘The Culture Wars’: An Exchange
November 3, 1994
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Conant & the FBI
October 20, 1994
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The Culture Wars
October 6, 1994
Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future by Richard Bernstein
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The Quiet American
July 14, 1994
James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age
by James G. Hershberg
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Eliot Without Tears
May 12, 1994
George Eliot’s ‘Middlemarch’ directed by Anthony Page. produced by BBC Television
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An American Prodigy
December 2, 1993
Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life by Joseph Brent
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The Real John Dewey
June 25, 1992
John Dewey and American Democracy
by Robert B. Westbrook
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The Politics of Deconstruction
November 21, 1991
Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man by David Lehman
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Man of the People
April 11, 1991
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics by Christopher Lasch
