Articles of Note

?What is beauty anyway?? said Picasso. 'There's no such thing.' Can we distinguish the man's art from his posturing?... more »

New Books

What should an essay do? It can start by juxtaposing the banal and the big, the intimate and the alien, the personal and the public... more »

Essays & Opinions

Henry James and the Jews. Yes, the novelist was prone to clumsy analogies ? likening Jews to worms, monkeys, squirrels, ants. No, he was not an anti-Semite... more »