Articles of Note

“About 40 years old, 175cm tall, slender, with an elongated face, black thinning hair, light-rimmed glasses": Philip Roth's Czech KGB file... more »

New Books

Consider the strongman. Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s new book on dictators elides the political and cultural conditions that allow for their rise   ... more »

Essays & Opinions

You can write poems about sex or excrement, but not business or money. Those are the only two obscene topics left. Dana Gioia explains... more »