Articles of Note

The publisher Faber & Faber was derided at first as “a bunch of Oxford amateurs; won’t last.” Passion, shrewdness, and luck have kept it afloat for 90 years... more »

New Books

Digressions galore, head-scratching logic, and a 26-sentence paragraph. A new biography of Chaucer is “a jargon-ridden exercise in academic colonialism”... more »

Essays & Opinions

“We are sick of you and your weird diseases, go home!” A tour of the red-light district of Amsterdam with Oliver Sacks... more »