Category: Book Review

Take That, Charles Kinbote!

The Flâneur, the Chemist, and the Chairman

Truth or Heresy?

Groping for Groups

Ben Jonson: Poet

How We Became So Beautiful and So Bright: Deep History and Evolutionary Anthropology

A Word to the Wise: New Translations of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes

Full Text

Paris as Seen by the Paintbrush

Gorgeous, Gallant Galleries

A Cultural, Not a Literary History

Risky Adventures

Women Writers of a Certain Age

Famous Seamus

Primary Texts and Secondary Sources

War, Love, Art, and the Limits of Language

Travelers

Dinner and a Classic

Elizabeth Taylor’s Otherness

Updike’s Farewell

Citizen Milton

Five Poets

Forster as Broadcaster and Critic

On Location

“Given the Gift of Time”

Keats’s Afterlife

Gravity and Grace: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald

Father/Daughter Match: Bronson and Louisa May Alcott

In the Dust Where My Heart Will Remain

The Life and Times of Latin

Translation for Our Moment

Poetry and Dialectic

Literary History as Kaffeeklatsch

Consequences and Possibilities

Kenneth Burke and Shakespeare

The Wounded Laureate

Outside, Inside

A Good Time Everywhere

Aesthetic Phantoms

Collecting Science: Sokal, Dawkins, and McKibben

History and Nightmare

American Art and Literature

Rhetorical Questions

Music History Lite

Imaginary Friends

Fred Wander: Scheherazade of the Shoah

Should We Both Tremble?

Early Maxwell

Poetry Chronicle

Edmund Wilson’s Permanent Criticism

The Value of Doubt