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I have been doing freelance print journalism since 1983, though with a few
dry years around 1990 when I was establishing a family and trying to make a
career on Wall Street. Each of the links below gets
you to a list of my print journalism for the corresponding period.
"Favorites" is just a repeat listing of some pieces from all periods that
people have told me they particularly like. In all these lists, pieces are categorized as follows: "R" for book reviews, "A" for general-interest articles, and "C" for literary criticism. I am also an incurable writer of Letters to the Editor. I must have published hundreds of specimens of this low and embarrassing genre. The very few I have a record of and think worth preserving are shown in the lists as as "L". Starting January 27th, 2003, I have been doing an
as-I-please column titled "The Straggler" in alternate issues of
National Review (i.e. once every four weeks). These I have tagged as
"S." Of my earlier work, there is much I have not been able to track down, but I believe the following list is complete back to 1996. Some of these earlier pieces — marked with an asterisk — were published under my pen-name "Giles Mathews". (Which is a Sinological in-joke: Herbert Giles compiled the first major Chinese-English dictionary [1892], Robert Mathews the second [1931] .) Titles are thought up by editors and sub-editors. I am not responsible. Please note also that because the texts of these pieces are taken from my own files, often in haste, they may not correspond exactly to the printed versions, which have passed through the hands of editors. I do bring them into line when I have time ... but I don't always have time. |
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