This Light is Enough
/Renowned reviewer and cultural critic Daniel Mendelsohn has a scintillating new collection of his recent work; John Cotter and Steve Donoghue compare notes on "Waiting for the Barbarians"
Read MoreA Man Without Divisions
/"He calls you a swine," Walter Lippmann once wrote of H.L. Mencken, "and he increases your will to live." A reissue of Mencken's 1926 rabble-rouser Notes on Democracy shows the journalist at his insulting, rejuvenating best.
Read MoreShore to Shore
/For two generations, the great American critic and man of letters Edmund Wilson has been instructing and delighting his readers - and inspiring some of them to become critics themselves.
Read MoreQueen Elizabeth the First
/Elizabeth Hardwick joined the literary world of mid-20th century Manhattan with every intention of making her mark upon it - which she did, in review after inimitable review, taking American book-discourse to levels and places it had never reached before
Read MoreThe Tigers of Wrath
/Where would Lionel Trilling, godfather of the liberal imagination, fit into our contemporary culture of ideas? And how much of that culture is of his making?
Read MoreMemo to a Colleague
/Is Marjorie Garber's defense of literary studies balm to the beleaguered English professor's soul? Not yet, anyway.
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