Articles of Note

The novelist Benjamin Kunkel left New York for Buenos Aires. Now he's a Marxist public intellectual with a theory: commonism... more »

New Books

Bernard Williams was an extraordinarily successful philosopher. But he hardly thought well of academic philosophy: ?unhelpful, boring, sterile?... more »

Essays & Opinions

Lawrence frequently put people he knew in his novels. Joyce, too. Roth and Bellow? Well, pity their ex-wives. But does knowing all this tell us anything about literature?... more »