Book Review: Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers
/The editors of Vanity Fair magazine delve into their century of writing to serve up dozens of their best writers writing about other writers.
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 MoreNow in Paperback: Arguably
/Now in a bright yellow paperback: a generous helping of essays, provocations, and tirades by the late Christopher Hitchens.
Read MoreThe Knower and the Sayer
/Most criticism is reactive, but in his essay "The Poet," Ralph Waldo Emerson proved prophetic. He set a challenge and Walt Whitman took him up on it.
Read MoreChristopher Hitchens
/1949-2011
Read MoreIn Lieu of a Drink
/Provocative public intellectual/muckraker Christopher Hitchens offers an enormous volume of collected essays and articles, probably his last.
Read MoreThe Birth of a Salesman
/Eleven years after her breakout novel The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt returns to satirize the chattering nonsense of the corporate world.
Read MoreThe New Old Atheism
/Religion is one of those subjects that are too important to be polite about. But can we at least agree to disagree respectfully about the meaning of life?
Read MoreWrite, Repeat Redux
/In his new memoir, Christopher Hitchens regales his readers with one good story after another. But as John Rodwan shows, we've heard most of them before - lots of times.
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