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Terry Teachout

Mr. Teachout is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. Satchmo at the Waldorf, his 2011 play about Louis Armstrong, has been produced off Broadway and throughout America.

Mr. Teachout is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. Satchmo at the Waldorf, his 2011 play about Louis Armstrong, has been produced off Broadway and throughout America.

What to Read this Summer?

By Terry Teachout July 6, 2011

JULY 1, 2011 1:00 P.M. What to Read this Summer? Some suggestions. Need a book to bring to the beach — or your back yard? National Review Online asked some avid readers (and writers) for ...

Finish Your Christmas Shopping with NRO

By Terry Teachout December 20, 2010

Richard Linklater’s Me & Orson Welles, just out on home video, is a witty, ingenious, perfectly cast, brilliantly designed, and astonishingly well-informed backstage rom-com about the Mercury Theatre’s legendary 1937 Broadway ...

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Funny as a Crutch

By Terry Teachout March 4, 2010

A review of The Blood of the Lamb, by Peter De Vries.

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The Road Goes On Forever

By Terry Teachout January 7, 2010

Watching On the Road with Charles Kuralt, Set 1.

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Be Careful What You Ask For

By Terry Teachout November 5, 2009

Point of No Return portrays middle-class life with a sympathetic honesty that is both unromantic and uncommon

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Truth without Bullets

By Terry Teachout September 17, 2009

Of the countless novels of World War II written by American vets, the only one to which I return regularly is James Gould Cozzens’s Guard of Honor.

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What Grandma Read

By Terry Teachout June 18, 2009

Terry Teachout reviews What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920–1960, by Gordon Hutner

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The Other O’Connor

By Terry Teachout June 4, 2009

There was another Catholic novelist named O’Connor at work in the Fifties and Sixties, and for a time he was both better known and vastly more popular.

Teddy Roosevelt’s voice…

By Terry Teachout November 21, 2006

…was not squeaky. To hear it, go here. Further proof that Gore Vidal is never right….

Happy Isn’t The Word For It

By Terry Teachout December 8, 2005

Jack Fowler’s posting made me smile. I’m just three months younger than NR, and it certainly never occurred to me when I picked up my first issue more than half ...