John Wilson

John Wilson recommends the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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A novelist's pen name hides a playful detective tale. Continue Reading »

A bibliophile makes his picks for essential summer reading. Continue Reading »

Something is missing from the New York Times Book Review's Summer Reading issue. Continue Reading »

It is strange to read Riddley Walker amid the vast public discourse of fear today. Continue Reading »

That the discourse of fear is so obviously flawed doesn’t mean that we really have nothing to fear. Continue Reading »

Why are old people so invisible in our “culture”? Continue Reading »

Why is it that our expectations for the life to come are so rarely mentioned? Continue Reading »

Something essential to Andrew Klavan the writer animates Klavan the political satirist. Continue Reading »

An early form of baseball was well-established in England by the mid-eighteenth century. Continue Reading »