Michael C. Legaspi

At the center of Alexander Payne’s moral vision stands the Little Human Being. His clever, contemporary comedies—most recently About Schmidt, Sideways, and The Descendants—are sympathetic to human fragility and yet not sentimental, honest about moral weakness but not cynical. The . . . . Continue Reading »

“I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue”: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship by Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg Harvard, 392 pages, $35 Anthony Grafton, professor of history at Princeton University and president of the American Historical Association, . . . . Continue Reading »