From the stacks

The Curse of Jesse

American Amok

Is the gun-ridden USA a violent nation?

How to Write About Fashion

September 7, 1974

Pauline Kael's First Film Review for The New Republic

'Godard Among the Gangsters,' September 10, 1966

What Life in Cuba Was Like After Castro's Revolution

How Flaubert Changed Literature Forever

Is God Russian? Dostoevsky Thought So.

e e cummings Tries to Answer the Question "Who Am I?" in This Delightful Lecture

F. Scott Fitzgerald Thought This Book Would Be the Best American Novel Of His Time

In Defense of Public Libraries

The Millennia-Old History of the Apocalypse

Why Johnny Can't Operate

Saul Bellow's Ferocious Beliefs

Saul's particular combination of intellectuality and vitality was not paradoxical, it was category-shattering.

On the 1992 Campaign Trail with Jerry Brown

March 2, 1992

Gustave Flaubert Was Not A Realist

Why Do Great Writers Stop Writing?

The tragic epilogue of Harper Lee

The Myth of Shakespeare

What is the true preeminence of The Bard?

The Art of Translation

On the sins of translation and the great Russian short story.

Charlotte Brontë Discovered the Plain Heroine

Even Rebecca West Had Trouble Reading Henry James