Articles of Note

Walter Kirn, the conspiratorially minded counter-elite journalist, tries a new way of sticking it to the ruling classes: founding a literary magazine... more »

New Books

It’s hard to get good at one art form. Harder still to get good at another. Nicholson Baker is a cautionary tale, whether he realizes it or not... more »

Essays & Opinions

A paradox of modern political life: the more times feel unprecedented, the more we reach for past parallels