'Who Has the Best Tunes?'
John Leonard
Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, blasphemes not only Islam and Hinduism, but Thatcherism and the advertising industry. He's unkind, too, to V.S. Naipaul. For this they want to kill him?
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1989
1983
1976
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Updike Evaluated: The Writer as Matchmaker
In this 1976 essay from The Nation 's archives, a scholar considers some of the late novelist's favored subjects--men, women and marriage.
1973
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Archie Green's Only a Miner
Folklorist Archie Green blows the dust off old coal-mining songs, revealing the souls of long-dead miners and their struggles to survive.
1972
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Cliff's False Notes
Who was to blame for Clifford Irving's fake Howard Hughes autobiography? Irving, for sure, but don't forget the publishing industry.
1948
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The Kinsey Report
The publication of the Kinsey report means for the for the first time that frank talk about sex is no longer the sole domain of the church and psychoanalysts.
1931
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British-Style Fakery
Thomas Chatterton was the balloon boy of eighteenth-century British literary circles.
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