Valediction
AT THE PEAK OF HIS CAREER and in the full ripeness of his abundant talents, the intellectual historian Tony Judt was struck down by Lou Gehrig's...
AT THE PEAK OF HIS CAREER and in the full ripeness of his abundant talents, the intellectual historian Tony Judt was struck down by Lou Gehrig's...
G.J. MeyerFeb 8, 2012
Wading waist-deep into this hoard of history, smothered in the dust of centuries — he called it "genizaschmutz" — Schechter sifted for four weeks.
Benjamin BalintFeb 5, 2012
IN THE PREFACE TO THIS REMARKABLE memoir, Richard Seaver claims that he had never intended to publish it. And indeed he died before he could complete...
Loren GlassFeb 2, 2012
IN STYLE IT TOOK THE SHAPE of any other garden party, that signal diversion of the interwar years. Tea and jellies, dancing and croquet, "lemon-ade"...
Lindsay RecksonJan 12, 2012
Stein recommends Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize, just as Freud "recommends" the Gestapo — with the same perfect irony.
Renate StendhalDec 17, 2011
It is neither an accident nor a disaster that humanity is now, for the first time in its history, a predominantly urban species.
Casey WalkerMay 30, 2011