Articles of Note

How Borges made ends meet. His once-wealthy family lost it all, so he catalogued library books and wrote ads for yogurt. Only then did he really begin to write... more »


New Books

For nearly 40 years, Arthur Conan Doyle contributed countless stories to The Strand. No relationship between writer and magazine was more fruitful... more »


Essays & Opinions

In the mid-1950s, when Primo Levi traveled to Germany on business as a chemist, he relished awkward chitchat with the locals. “My name is Levi. I am a Jew, and I learned your language at Auschwitz”... more »