Alan Vanneman's Three Bullets

by Wolcott Gibbs Just as the advance agent for a circus is not likely to be disturbed by even the largest elephant, so his metropolitan equi...

The average contributor to this magazine is semi-literate; that is, he is ornate to no purpose, full of senseless and elegant variations, an...

For more than forty years now, Americans have been engaged in a furious culture war, disputing the significance and worth of that fast-reced...

Fortunately, we don’t have to face that prospect. Thelonious Monk has been in the grave for more than 20 years, but his music lives on, in d...

Where did the time go? OK, Monica hasn’t run up against the big Five O yet, but when she does, well, I think it might go something like thi...