Articles of Note

Half Xanadu, half Lowe’s, the Robert Rauschenberg archive contains bicycles, neckties, a recipe for key lime pie. How to separate the materials of life from those of art?... more »

New Books

C.K. Scott Moncrieff: Catholic, homosexual, friend of Chesterton, Owen, Eliot, Waugh. Also war hero, spy, and the first English translator of Proust... more »

Essays & Opinions

Two centuries ago, the literary reviews – especially Blackwood’s – were slashing, pugnacious, out for blood. Now “the bloodbath has become a featherbed”... more »