Articles of Note

Literature, art, music, architecture, religion, and science all have canons. What about the ingredients stirred into the tastes of our time? Why not a culinary canon?... more »

New Books

Was Nabokov an American writer? He thought so. "I am as American as April in Arizona," he said. But where did his "Charles Atlas muscle-man" prose style originate?... more »

Essays & Opinions

Talk of microaggressions and trigger warnings are all the chatter on college campuses. Chalk it up to the tyranny of “emotional reasoning.”  The result: intellectual homogeneity... more »