"granta" is up there. they have more literary pieces less journalistic and more personal essays.re other things barely heard of. "the hedgehog review." "american interest" is a fine magazine. out of washington there is another magazine, "national affairs." i think i picked from there this year a piece by a woman on the gettysburg address. i learned a lot from her, i thought i knew about the gettysburg address. i forgot the exact number but i think she said there were 120 separate words. brian lamb: 272 overall. david brooks: she goes through each of these phrases and says where they came from and how they evolved and different uses over the years. "conceived in liberty," what did lincoln mean when he was 20, when he was 40? it is a deep dive into that speech which i found illuminating. brian lamb: there is another -- one of the things that you say is that hardly a year goes by that you cannot give an award to michael lewis. david brooks: i try to not give him an award because he has gotten a few but superstars are superstars. brian lamb: let's look at him for a while. for those w