Articles of Note

Paul Auster’s career is a reminder that writers' lesser efforts can go unnoticed in the presence of their masterworks... more »

New Books

“I’m drunk today and I don’t talk very clearly.” In interviews and letters, the painter Francis Bacon issued a multitude of apologies... more »

Essays & Opinions

“There is no end to war and no end, it would seem, to the uses Shakespeare can be put to in war”... more »