The New Yorker, July 24, 1995: "Twilight of the Goddess." A critical look at Ayn Rand and her work. Thirteen years after Rand's death, her books still sell more than three hundred thousand copies a year. Not since the popular novels of almost a century before, bent on refutations of Darwin or God, and offering what George Eliot called "a complete theory of life and manual of divinity, in a love story," had there appeared so vividly accessible and reassuring a guide for the cosmically perplexed. As late as 1991, the Library of Congress found that a majority of Americans surveyed named "Atlas Shrugged" as the book that had most influenced their lives, after the Bible. AYN_ran [About 57K, in three parts]