Articles of Note

The poet Fernando Pessoa published little, and usually under other names. Only after his death did the scope of his genius become clear... more »

New Books

To think like Shakespeare, enter the Elizabethan classroom, where curiosity, intellectual agility, and rhetorical felicity were paramount... more »

Essays & Opinions

Via Joyce, Rushdie, and Franzen, the modern novel is obsessed with competition. Yet the semantics of power are difficult to trace... more »