Serf Advisory
A practical guide for hired help, from the eighteenth century to ours
Book Review
Hurricane Lolita
Fifty years ago Vladimir Nabokov published his most notorious novel. Its ravishing effects can still be felt
Passion in Fashion
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Free and Easy
Probably nothing afforded Ben Franklin as much pleasure as the applause and income he received from people who didn't know he was kidding
New Fiction
Finds and flops
The Prisoner of Cool
Elmore Leonard's talents have increasingly become cooped up in his hallmark tough-guy aesthetic
Boys Will Be Boys
The latest in the ever growing field of "You go, girl!" studies
New Fiction
Finds and flops
Triumph at Trafalgar
In his victory over the French and the Spanish, Admiral Horatio Nelson's biggest guns were the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
Another World
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