Arts and Culture
Desert Places
The novels of Cormac McCarthy.
Before Kristallnacht
The Abolition of Character
Why today’s storytellers are so bad at imagining the future.
James Joyce and the Modernist Ambition
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Rebuild Penn Station
And revive classical architecture in New York.
Redeeming Laughter
The saving grace of Jewish-American comedy.
Shakespeare Againe and Againe
The First Folio at 400.
A Happy Guest in Russia’s Pages
The great Russian novels provoke a strong sense of attachment and identification.
The Novel Truth
Novels have a special power to reveal the truth.
Once Upon a National Pastime
Roger Angell, baseball’s bard.
Out of The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece.