Articles of Note

The newsletter is the ultimate form for a moment in which writers feel pressure to produce a steady stream of advertisements for themselves”... more »


New Books

Adrienne Rich’s war on tokenism. Honorary degrees, letters of recommendation, National Book Awards — to Rich, they all stank   ... more »


Essays & Opinions

The Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa’s political writings were a sort of fugitive polemic — an attack on everything from a vantage point of nowhere   ... more »