Articles of Note

In praise of Grace Paley: “In Paley you hear America singing, yes, but also: belly-aching, kvetching, teasing…”... more »

New Books

The long, glorious history of beer. Consider the epic Gilgamesh: After seven jugs, our hero “was suddenly joyful, and sang aloud”... more »

Essays & Opinions

Jean Genet put the idea of evil at the heart of his thinking. He inhabited the dualistic universe of monotheism even as he inverted its core values.... more »