http://www.CommentaryMagazine.com/ en-us Copyright 2009, CommentaryMagazine.com. All Rights Reserved info@ecomsolutions.net info@ecomsolutions.net http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15298 In the long afternoon light, the yellow glow extending down the West-East thoroughfares from river to river, casting businessmen and bums and wives and bike messengers all, for a moment, in halo-like glow, so that the most repugnant and repulsive among us looked, for an instant, blessed and beatific, it was too easy to imagine that we had found our noble plot. The end of history—hadn’t Rankin heard that? Karl Taro Greenfeld http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15275 She clung to him as if she wanted their cells to merge, and she keened—because it seemed like the end, and tragic; or, more tragic, still more tragic, not the end. If I can’t live with you, I’ll die. John J. Clayton http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15262 Algis Valiunas reviews Donald Kagan's "Thucydides." Reviewed by Algis Valiunas http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15247 It is March 15, 1933, and Nathan Lipinsky, age 20, is summoned to the office of his boss, Max Kessler, a stockbroker notable for prospering during this time of exceptional -economic privation. Kessler does not summon him directly, though Lipinsky’s desk is within easy earshot. Peter Lopatin http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15224 This restaurant, Weinstein sensed immediately, was a mistake. M. Henry it was called, the M. apparently standing for Monsieur. He had driven past it many times, so he thought he might as well give it a try when his friend Buddy Berkson called to set up one of their regular monthly lunches. Joseph Epstein http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15196 Jean heard the beeps that signaled the beginning of the radio news and put down the true-crime book she was reading about the murder of Susan Reinert and her children in a Pennsylvania suburb over 25 years ago. As the cab zipped along, she checked that her own three kids were fine. Hannah Brown http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15173 Letters in response to Terry Teachout's “Believing in Flannery O'Connor.” Reader Letters http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15172 Reviewed by Jonathan Kay http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15171 Reviewed by Liam Julian http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm?id=15170 Reviewed by Cheryl Miller