▽The New York Review of Books: Home ●04/04 02:13 April 24, 2025Vivian GornickThe 176-Year ArgumentAt the University of Chicago all they wanted to know was, What’s the theory? At Yale all they wanted to know was, What’s the technique? At City College of New York all they wanted to know was, How does this relate to real life?April 24, 2025 issueThomas PowersA Mighty ThemeLarry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove is “the Moby-Dick of the plains”—the gr