Articles

The New Yorker
These links to The New Yorker are archived articles written by Louis Menand. Menand often writes reviews of literature, nonfiction, and the cinema as well as the occasional written portrait of a well-known person. Some articles before 2002 could not be found online.

> Woke Up This Morning: Why do we read diaries? 12-10-2007
> Postscript: Norman Mailer. 11-19-2007
> Upstate: Small-town dreamers. 10-15-2007
> Drive, He Wrote: What the Beats were about. 10-1-2007
> Lives of Others: The biography business. 8-6-2007
> Fractured Franchise: Are the wrong people voting? 7-9-2007
> The Aesthete: The novel and Michael Ondaatje. 6-4-2007
> Comment: The Graduates. 5-21-2007
> Chaos Under Heaven: What was Nixon's trip to China all about? 3-12-2007
> Notable Quotables: Is there anything that is not a quotation? 2-12-2007
> Do the Math: Thomas Pynchon returns. 11-20-2006
> Dispossession: Charles Frazier’s second novel. 9-25-2006
> Bob on Bob: Dylan talks. 9-4-2006
> Comment: Name That Tone. 6-19-2006
> Acide Redux: The life and high times of Timothy Leary. 6-19-2006
> Breaking Away: Francis Fukuyama and the neoconservatives. 3-20-2006
> The Earthquake: A Manhattan Affair. 1-30-2006
> All that Glitters: Literature's Global Economy. 12-19-2005
> Everybody's an Expert: Putting predictions to the test. 11-28-2005
> From the Ashes: A new history of Europe since 1945. 11-21-2005
> Unpopular Front: American art and the Cold War. 10-10-2005
> Stand by Your Man: The strange liaison of Sartre and Beauvoir. 9-19-2005
> Missionary: Edmund Wilson and the American Culture. 8-1-2005
> Talk of the Town: Decisions, Decisions. 7-4-2005
> Fat Man: Herman Kahn and the nuclear age. 6-20-2005
> Something About Kathy: Ishiguro’s quasi-science-fiction novel. 3-28-2005
> Mystery Man: The many faces of Eustace Tilley. 2-14-2005
> Gross Points: Is the blockbuster the end of cinema? 2-7-2005
> Permanent Fatal Errors: Did the voters send a message? 12-6-2004
> The Unpolitical Animal: How political science understands voters. 8-23-2004
> Nanook and Me: “Fahrenheit 9/11” and the documentary tradition. 8-2-2004
> Bad Comma: Lynne Truss’s strange grammar. 6-21-2004
> Patriot Games: The new nativism of Samuel P. Huntington. 5-10-2004
> Mean to Gene: The strange career of Eugene McCarthy. 4-5-2004
> Game Theory: Spassky vs. Fischer revisited. 2-23-2004
> London Postcard: Dark Material. 2-2-2004
> Best of the "Best." 1-5-2004
> Masters of the Matrix: Kennedy, Nixon, and the culture of the image. 12-29-2003
> Q&A: Tuning In the Presidency. 12-29-2003
> True Story: The virtuosity of John Updike. 11-24-2003
> After the Revolution: Bernardo Bertolucci revisits Paris. 10-20-2003
> The End Matter: The nightmare of citation 10-6-2003
> Brainwashed: Where the “Manchurian Candidate” came from. 9-15-2003
> Comment: Moses in Alabama. 9-8-2003
> The Devil's Disciples: Can you force people to love freedom? 7-21-2003
> The Thin Envelope: Why college admissions has become unpredictable. 3-31-2003
> The Historical Romance: Edmund Wilson’s adventure with Communism. 3-24-2003
> Honest, Decent, Wrong: The invention of George Orwell. 1-20-2003
> Cat People: What Dr. Seuss really taught us. 12-16-2002
> What Comes Naturally: Does evolution explain who we are? 11-25-2002
> The Women Come and Go: The love song of T. S. Eliot. 9-30-2002
> Faith, Hope, and Clarity: September 11th and the American soul. 9-9-2002
> The Reluctant Memorialist: Maya Lin tried to put the business of monuments behind her. Then came September 11th. 7-8-2002
> Says Who? 6-10-2002
> Comment: Silly Ideas. 5-6-2002
> Both Sides Now: Doris Lessing's sixties. 2-18-2002
> Buried Treasure: The impish brilliance of John Maynard Keynes. 1-21-2002
> Slips of the Tongue: Before there was Fowler's, there was Fowler. 11-26-2001
> Culture Club: The short, happy life of the American highbrow 10-15-2001
> Holden at Fifty:"The Catcher in the Rye" and what it spawned. 10-1-2001
> False Fronts 7-23-2001
> Pants on Fire. 7-16-2001
> Laura's World: What a deaf-blind girl taught the nineteenth century. 7-2-2001
> Comment: Alone Together. 7-2-2001
> The Seventies World 5-28-2001
> She Had to Have It. 4-23-2001 (abstract)
> Talk of the Town: Who owns baseball? 4-16-2001 (Google cache)
> He Knew He Was Right: The Tragedy of Barry Goldwater. 3-26-2001
> Civil actions 2-12-2001
> Sporting chances: The Cost of College Athletics 1-22-2001 (PDF)
> In a strange land 11-6-2000
> Why they were fab 10-16-2000
> Comp time: Is college too late to learn how to write? 9-11-2000

The New York Review of Books
These links to the New York Review of Books will only show excerpts of the articles. To read the entire article, you must pay $3 per article.

> Edmund Wilson's Vanished World 9-23-2004
> Goblin Market 1-17-2002
> College: The End of the Golden Age 10-18-2001
> The Socrates of Cambridge 4-26-2001
> Bloom's Gift 5-25-2000
> A Fine Detachment 3-9-2000
> Opening Moves 12-2-1999
> Kubrick's Strange Love 8-12-1999
> Billion-dollar Baby 6-24-1999
> Cushing Strout, John C. Markowitz, The Strange Case of William James: An Exchange
4-8-1999
> William James and the Case of the Epileptic Patient 12-17-1998
> Beat the Devil 10-22-1998
> Jerry Don't Surf 9-24-1998
> Not Getting the Lesson of the Master 12-4-1997
> Inside the Billway 8-14-1997
> Made in the USA 6-26-1997
> Entropology 6-12-1997
> How Eliot Became Eliot 5-15-1997
> Born Free 2-20-1997
> It's a Wonderful Life 2-6-1997
> Between Planes 1-9-1997
> Dole's Three Strikes 11-14-1996
> Hollywood's Trap 9-19-1996
> Eliot and the Jews 6-6-1996
> What Jane Austen Doesn't Tell Us 2-1-1996
> Journey into the Dark 7-13-1995
> Under Western Eyes 4-20-1995
> Finding It at the Movies 3-23-1995
> Culture Wars 10-6-1994
> The Quiet American 7-14-1994
> Eliot Without Tears 5-12-1994
> An American Prodigy 12-2-1993
> The Real John Dewey 6-25-1992
> The Politics of Deconstruction 11-21-1991
> Man of the People 4-11-1991


Slate
Menand followed his New Republic editor Michael Kinsley to Slate when it was founded in 1996 and was a contributing writer for two years.

> Just Like a Woman: Adrian Lyne's Lolita stops way short of pedophilic perversity. 8-5-1998
> Pop Technology: How Star Wars Changed the World. 2-12-1997
> Shut Up, He Explained: A Yale Law professor gets it all wrong about the First Amendment. 1-24-1997
> Stayin' Alive: Like a lot of music written in the 1970s, Evita pays tribute to the act of survival. Unsurprisingly, it hasn't survived. 1-2-1997
> Capture the Flag: Jasper Johns' own private icon. 10-30-1996
> Now What I Wonder Do I Mean By That: Interpreting Beckett. 8-21-1996
> New York State of Mind: A city of buildings, gangsters, and hats. 7-31-1996

The New York Times
> Unfinished Business. 6-20-1999
> Everybody Else's College Education. 4-20-1997 (behind paywall)
> How to Make a Ph.D. Matter. 9-22-1996
> Inspired by Despair. 1-25-1987
> A Metaphor is a Terrible Thing to Waste. 9-7-1986

Miscellaneous
> [American Council of Learned Societies] The Marketplace of Ideas 2001