Category: Book Review

Heartlands

The Reader in Love

Fiction Like Verona

Back to Bacteria: Richard Dawkins’ Fabulous Bestiary

Pritchett Unselfing Himself

When the Light Came On: The Epic Gilgamesh

Mind the Gap

Road Trips

Benjamin Franklin’s Triumph of Reason

Late Excellence

Adam Zagajewski: The Wry Metaphysician

Bonnefoy and Shakespeare

Politics

Anthony Powell and His Critics

Swimming Lessons

The Negative Style of David Foster Wallace

Plainsongs

A Poem of Pure Enjoyment

Alexander Hamilton: The Enlightened Realist

Up Close and Personal

To Kill or Not to Kill: When Heroes Waver

Light and Dark

It Is, and It Is Not

What’s Been Happening to Jane Austen?

The Banality of Eros

Seven Poets

The Simpson House: Sixty-One Years in Construction

Ovid, Our Contemporary

Everything and Nothing in Yeats

Close to Seferis

Flights of Imagination

Fiction Matters

Kingdom, Power and Glory

Jean Starobinski’s History of “Reaction”: The Uses and Dangers of Metaphorical Language

In the Anteroom

A Plague of Poets

The Presence of Pushkin

The Best Words in the Best Order

Heroes, Humbugs, and Hypocrites

Modernism Without the Dogmas

The Dream of Travel

Midwestern Boy

A Life on the Page

Captives of Their Imagination: Salem in 1692

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

Max Beerbohm: Spectator Sport

Orwell Matters

Sinclair Lewis: The Bard of Discontents

Riots, Earthquakes, and Other Hazards

The Grey Disguise of Years