"The 50th anniversary issue is gaudy with intellectual firepower. Four Nobel Laureates have bylines. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer muses on reading

"The 50th anniversary issue is gaudy with intellectual firepower. Four Nobel Laureates have bylines. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer muses on reading Proust. There’s the transcript of a long-lost lecture by T.S. Eliot. British novelist Zadie Smith writes about her dad and their walks in public gardens." It has its quirks and limitations -- Anglophilia, Isaiah Berlin, clubby-ness ("the New York review of each other's books), East-coast myopia. But it is consistently interesting, smart, confident, and deep.