Letters

The ’60s were a decade of both mass protests and mass concerts, and this was more than a coincidence.

• Wall of Sound
• The Editors

Perhaps history will view this wave of Arab unrest as another stage in the slow crumbling of US empire.

• Arab Street at Last
• Megan K. Stack

The Battle of Wisconsin is only the latest front in this intra-class culture war.

• The Battle of Wisconsin
• Eli S. Evans

In America, Practical Criticism came to be known as “close reading,” and later came to be known as New Criticism.

• That Room in Cambridge
• Emily Witt

Sometimes the columns run vertically, from top to bottom, sometimes horizontally, from left to right.

• Making Reality Unacceptable
• Luc Boltanski

You couldn’t miss the addition: a man beaming like a jack-o’-lantern, bigger than the blow-jobber, atop every path to the…

• Photo Ops
• Gemma Sieff

What if a certain neurotic investment is really the source of the best intellectual work?

• Why Bother?
• Nicholas Dames

Despite its resemblance to certain strands of modernism, Remainder is most interesting as an allegory of realism.

• McC
• Amanda Claybaugh

For ordinary consumers in the early ’90s, what going online felt like depended largely on what service provider you used.

• Indecency Doctrine
• Andrew Jacobs