Articles of Note

Terry Eagleton used to be "an earnest, high-minded, grim-lipped intellectual." Then feminism redirected his gaze to low-minded virtues... more »

New Books

You don't retire doing this, David Hockney says about the artistic circus that is his life. "You just do it till you fall over"... more »

Essays & Opinions

Approaching forty, sense of total failure. And so Cyril Connolly quit journalism to write a masterpiece. The key, he believed, was to have an interest in but contempt for humanity... more »