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Oct 13, 2025
In a ghost story, the appearance of the phrase “common-law partner” will be uncanny: it will sound like a dry, bureaucratic irrelevancy intervening from a third world,...
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Sep 25, 2025
A flutter of raven feathers accompanies each recitation of the name: Edgar Allan Poe. He is the “Master of the Macabre.” If we need visual assistance to remember him, we...
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Aug 13, 2025
When in November of 1849 Charlotte Brontë sent the gift of her second novel to the writer Harriet Martineau, she enclosed a note, writing that “Currer Bell offers a copy...
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Jun 23, 2025
After our trauma was met with silence, our lives were to be seen only in terms of pity and abjection. Violence was the key, the aberrant form that instantiated the fullness which we...
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Jun 18, 2025
A “quiet revival” in Christian practice may be underway in Britain. Church attendance, depressed by the pandemic, appears to have not just recovered but to have grown,...
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Jun 3, 2025
The fifty-three-year-old French novelist Mathias Énard is most distinguished by the many prizes he has won, more numerous as they are than his books. They have certified him...
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Apr 23, 2025
Sarah Ruden, translator of Aristophanes, Homer, Petronius, St. Augustine, etc., and the author of a study on St. Paul and a biography of Virgil, has now written an evaluation of...
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Mar 31, 2025
One wishes they hadn’t interpolated themselves and messed up the title. Why not The Great Gatsby: 100th Anniversary Deluxe Annotated Edition, putting the editor and his...
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Jan 31, 2025
The narrator of Ali Smith’s new novel, Gliff, is a thirteen-year-old named Briar. Various critics have thought Briar to be either male, female, or non-binary, and some have...
Oct 13, 2025In a ghost story, the appearance of the phrase “common-law partner” will be uncanny: it will sound like a dry, bureaucratic irrelevancy intervening from a third world,...
Sep 25, 2025A flutter of raven feathers accompanies each recitation of the name: Edgar Allan Poe. He is the “Master of the Macabre.” If we need visual assistance to remember him, we...
Aug 13, 2025When in November of 1849 Charlotte Brontë sent the gift of her second novel to the writer Harriet Martineau, she enclosed a note, writing that “Currer Bell offers a copy...
Jun 23, 2025After our trauma was met with silence, our lives were to be seen only in terms of pity and abjection. Violence was the key, the aberrant form that instantiated the fullness which we...
Jun 18, 2025A “quiet revival” in Christian practice may be underway in Britain. Church attendance, depressed by the pandemic, appears to have not just recovered but to have grown,...
Mar 31, 2025One wishes they hadn’t interpolated themselves and messed up the title. Why not The Great Gatsby: 100th Anniversary Deluxe Annotated Edition, putting the editor and his...
Jan 31, 2025The narrator of Ali Smith’s new novel, Gliff, is a thirteen-year-old named Briar. Various critics have thought Briar to be either male, female, or non-binary, and some have...