Articles of Note

Name the last novel to pass Andrew Ferguson's test: Would you be embarrassed at a cocktail party for not having read it?... more »

New Books

Frank Ramsey died at age 26, in 1930. Yet intellectuals still encounter "the Ramsey effect" — you reach a breakthrough, only to realize he got there first... more »

Essays & Opinions

Critics fixate on the role of empire in Conrad’s work. For Fredric Jameson, something else — the invention of the steamboat — reveals more... more »