Faith-Based Initiative
/In his new book City of Rivals, James Grumet takes a gloomy close-up look at America's deeply dysfunctional Congress and offers some solutions. But are those solutions dysfunctional too?
Read MoreBook Review: The Emerald Light in the Air
/"It's not your fault." "What's not my fault?" "Nothing. Everything. I don't know."
Read MoreThis 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 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 MoreBull Sessions: Journalism's Bloodsport Love Affair
/We live in an age of outrage, yet one of our most egregious 'blood sports' escapes censure from the press. Since long before Hemingway, writers have been calling bullfighting exotic instead of barbaric -- what are they thinking?
Read MoreSatanic Maggots
/Colonialism, feminism, witchcraft, the Lord of Darkness — themes such as these once made Sylvia Townsend Warner's novels bestsellers. Now her charmingly subversive fiction is back in print.
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