Articles of Note

Leo Stein was dogmatic, pompous, even a bit deranged, and essential. The professional dilettante's backing came at a crucial time for modernism... more »

New Books

As a nurse during the Civil War, Walt Whitman met thousands of wounded soldiers. He confronted the sheer physicality of death: The soul may move on, but the body remains... more »

Essays & Opinions

Idleness, Virginia Woolf thought, could be both strenuous and catatonic. The Bloomsbury Group was lazy, and proud of it — they were theorists (and practitioners) of leisure... more »