I am struck by the everyday misery and uncertainty and sheer muddle that George Orwell endured, along with his quotidian joys and satisfactions; particularly when juxtaposed with today's handwringing. Continue Reading »
Francis Marion Crawford was a very important novelist in his own day, and yet today few know his name. It is worthwhile revisiting his works. Continue Reading »
I can hardly imagine a more utopian time for a young intellectual, a reader of Great Books. Continue Reading »
One truth particularly deserving of universal acknowledgment is that there are a threatening number of “great works of literature.” Continue Reading »
Our editors reflect on Gustave Flaubert, Anglo-Saxon illustrations, Yuko Tsushima, C. S. Lewis, and James Herriot. Continue Reading »
Reading this book gave me a sense of visiting another world, roughly a century ago, in some respects similar to ours but in other ways radically different: time-travel on the cheap. Continue Reading »
There are many great books soon to be released on this side of the Atlantic. Here's a simple preview to get you ready. Continue Reading »
Alan Garner has for a long, long time been plotting complex stories and achieving uncanny effects with matter-of-fact but densely allusive prose. Continue Reading »
Last year marked the thirtieth anniversary of Dana Gioia’s Can Poetry Matter?, a follow-up to his famous 1991 article in The Atlantic. The article and book caused quite a stir. Gioia observed that poetry was no longer a part of intellectual life in America. It was not published in . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy reading, and all best wishes for the new year. Continue Reading »
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