Satchmo and the Jews
• November 2009
Louis Armstrong's heterodox views.
Inglourious Movie
• October 2009
Quentin Tarantino desecrates World War II.
The Mask of the Marranos
• October 2009
Allan Nadler surveys the strange and tragic history of a sect of crypto-Jews.
The First Decent Iraq-War Movie
• September 2009
A new film revitalizes a long-forgotten genre and offers a vivid portrait of the war and its soldiers.
The Crafty Art of Alan Ayckbourn
• September 2009
Giving a remarkable comic playwright his due at long last.
The Naked Novelist and the Dead Reputation
• September 2009
Re-evaluating the storied career of Norman Mailer.
Clyde and Bonnie Died for Nihilism
• July/August 2009
On the creation of a mendacious legend and the Baby Boomers who believed the lie.
A Critic Takes a Bow
• July/August 2009
On writing an opera after a career critiquing the creative work of others.
Isaac, with Love and Squalor
• July/August 2009
The sad and instructive career of an intellectual’s intellectual.
New Look, Old Truths
• April 2009
From the Editor
The Hunting of the Denby
• March 2009
A polemic against "snark" offers an unparalleled occasion for some.
My Favorite Classical Recordings
• January 2009
An annotated list of 25 performances that have given a lifetime of listening pleasure.
Hysteria in Four Acts
• December 2008
A little history, medical and otherwise, helps in understanding such contemporary epidemics as multiple-personality disorder and reports of childhood sexual abuse.
A Descent in the Dark
• November 2008
Terror, pain, exhaustion, life-threatening risk; or, the folly and the greatness of mountain climbing.
RIP Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Web Only
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn leaves behind him a vast and complicated legacy--a legacy with which COMMENTARY has been engaged for more than three decades.
