Articles of Note

Shakespeare relied on hundreds of books as source material. Yet we have no description of his library or a record of its dispersal when he died... more »

New Books

Believed to be dead in 1937 although he lived until 1943, Henrik Pontoppidan, author of the great Scandinavian novel, has been overlooked... more »

Essays & Opinions

We admire law and order, embrace reasons and causes, seek predictability. Except when we don't. This tension is evident in modern aesthetics... more »