Articles of Note

Torture devices, evil eyes, tufts of hair: Edgar Allan Poe created a lasting aesthetic of disgust... more »


New Books

Ethical statements have no objective truth and are thus subjective. So went the prevailing Oxford moral philosophy of the 1930s and '40s... more »


Essays & Opinions

John Ashbery was a poet of experiment and verbal adventure, of charity and self-forgiveness, and also of “mandarin avoidance"... more »