Issue 23

Brass Rubbings

By the Tombs of Peter and Paul

On Ethiopian pilgrims in Rome.

The Jungle

The Adjustment Bureau

On how medical billing works.

Historia Ecclesiastica

Perpetual Felicity

On Saint Perpetua.

Apologia

Hunger

On Army Ranger school.

Features

Honest Dishonesty

On liberalism and 12 Angry Men.

Features

The Two Natures of King Lear

On two views of providence and nature.

Features

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

On the fat industrial complex.

Arts and Letters

Sharing the Soul

The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, Gustave Flaubert, ed., trans. Francis Steegmuller, New York Review Books, pp. 720, $24.95

Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man, Gustave Flaubert, trans. Raymond N. MacKenzie, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 480, $19.95

Arts and Letters

Not Entirely Peaceful

The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748–1789, Robert Darnton, W.W. Norton, pp. 576, $45.00

Arts and Letters

At Sea

Tales of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Anne Margaret Daniel, Oxford World’s Classics, pp. 304, $11.95

Arts and Letters

What Happened to the Dinosaur?

The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs, Gregory S. Paul, Princeton University Press, pp. 384, $39.95