Arts & Letters Daily

Jerks of academe. If you spot one in the wild — at a conference hotel, across the seminar table — react as if you had seen a bear... more »

After taking the London arts scene by storm, John Berger moved to a mountain village and discovered a new joy: shoveling manure... more »

T.S. Eliot and Emily Hale traded painful and ecstatic love letters for decades. When they were finally free to marry, he demurred... more »