Articles of Note

How Mary-Kay Wilmers refashioned the London Review of Books in her image: literary and eccentric... more »

New Books

Both Seamus Heaney and Sylvia Plath were caught in the web of literary fame. But he lived to 74, she died at 30. The difference is instructive  ... more »

Essays & Opinions

A fact about the academic humanities? "Bomb-throwing radicals turn into humdrum humanists when they make the case for their departments"... more »