Mary McCarthy’s Clarity
by Richard T. WhittingtonMary McCarthy's caustic wit and command of language elevated her nonfiction to the first rank. Continue Reading »
Mary McCarthy's caustic wit and command of language elevated her nonfiction to the first rank. Continue Reading »
Kayla Rae Whitaker’s debut novel about two cartoonists, The Animators, asks whether the overexamined life is worth living. Continue Reading »
If Brian Doyle's style was unconventional, it was also unique and it was also good, which is the main thing. Continue Reading »
In Mohsin Hamid's novel Exit West, social leftism, direct democracy, and financial capital are victorious over the dark forces of nationalism and economic-political inequality. Continue Reading »
Anselm Kiefer's paintings attempt to come to terms with Germany's past, yet always transcend the reminders of guilt and suffering. Continue Reading »
Christian couples’ personal decisions to keep their families small has amounted to the shrinking of America's churches. Continue Reading »
John Bradburne—the saintly ascetic murdered in 1979 while caring for lepers in Rhodesia—was also the most prolific poet in the English language. Continue Reading »
Over at the Claremont Review of Books, Mark Bauerlein examines a new biography of Ernest Hemingway. Continue Reading »
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Volume IV:Party, Parliament, and the Dividing of the Whigs, 1780–1794 edited by p. j. marshall and donald bryantoxford, 608 pages, $200 In May 1791, six months after Edmund Burke touched off a pamphlet war with Reflections on the Revolution in France, a . . . . Continue Reading »
Any mention of “narcissism,” by this time, should cause in most thinking people a kind of Inigo Montoya reaction: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Continue Reading »
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