Articles of Note

Measuring its health by its books, the publishing industry gets a grim diagnosis. Symptoms include stultifying, plodding, overlong works... more »


New Books

“I’ve got a writer’s block as big as the Ritz and as stubborn as a grease stain on a gabardine suit,” admitted Ralph Ellison. It was “like a bad case of constipation”... more »


Essays & Opinions

The historian Gertrude Himmelfarb was a nuanced parser of the Enlightenment. When it came to Modernism, however, she could only recoil in horror... more »