Articles of Note

Shakespeare was a scientist. His grasp of astronomy was greater than we might realize. Was Hamlet's ?infinite space? really about ... space?... more »

New Books

Robert Frost loathed arty pretension, but he was no folksy rustic. His poems are wonders of sophisticated construction. Clive James explains... more »

Essays & Opinions

In 1979, Mark Edmundson tumbled out of the garden of sex, drugs, and rock ?n? roll into the Yale English department: tweed, sherry, de Man, Derrida, and sensible shoes... more »