Articles of Note

A new generation of figurative painters does much right, but there’s something irksome about their work: an overdependence on academic methods... more »

New Books

By the end of his life, John Rawls had a stature so great that he shaped the very idea of what philosophy is. Has this become a problem?... more »

Essays & Opinions

To accommodate drinking, the Literary Review established the Academy Club. Poets were banned for never paying their tabs and for bad conversation... more »