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• Modernism: The Lure of Heresy It's not Frank Gehry's fault they put motorcycles in his museum.
  Mia Fineman Dec. 4, 2007
  
• On the Road, Revisited Masterpiece or masturbation?
  Meghan O'Rourke Sept. 4, 2007
  
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows So long, Hogwarts!
  Polly Shulman July 18, 2007
  
• Falling Man Is DeLillo equating survivors of 9/11 with terrorists?
  Meghan O'Rourke May 23, 2007
  
• Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy How much are cheap Chinese toys worth to you?
  Daniel Gross May 16, 2007
  
• How Doctors Think The problem with giving doctors score cards.
  Darshak Sanghavi April 10, 2007
  
• Auden at 100 The idealistic love poet.
  Meghan O'Rourke March 1, 2007
  
• American Islam Is it possible to fight a "cosmic war" successfully?
  Daniel Benjamin Jan. 23, 2007