Articles of Note

Robert Silvers, who described editors as middlemen and cautioned against taking credit away from writers, is dead. The founding editor of The New York Review of Books was 87... Laura Marsh... Adam Gopnik... Mary Beard... Hillel Italie... Cass Sunstein... Louis Menand... NYRB... Ian Buruma... ChinaFile... n+1... Andrew O’Hagan... John Banville... Daniel Mendelsohn... Alexandra Schwartz... Adam Thirlwell... Thomas Meaney... Phillip Lopate... more NYRB... more »

New Books

Suicide, self-destruction, poetry. Berryman, Plath, Chatterton, Larkin, Frost, Auden: Is an unhappy end a necessary price for poetic genius?... more »

Essays & Opinions

Deconstruction: a detective story. A new play about Paul de Man shows how something monstrous can begin as a cavalier disregard for truth ... more »