Literature

Paradise in Savannah

I can hardly imagine a more utopian time for a young intellectual, a reader of Great Books. Continue Reading »

2 May 2023

What We've Been Reading—April 2023

One truth particularly deserving of universal acknowledgment is that there are a threatening number of “great works of literature.” Continue Reading »

25 Apr 2023

What We’ve Been Reading—March 2023

by Editors

Our editors reflect on Gustave Flaubert, Anglo-Saxon illustrations, Yuko Tsushima, C. S. Lewis, and James Herriot. Continue Reading »

27 Mar 2023

Gambling and the American Pastime

by John Wilson

Reading this book gave me a sense of visiting another world, roughly a century ago, in some respects similar to ours but in other ways radically different: time-travel on the cheap. Continue Reading »

24 Mar 2023

What Should I Read Next?

by John Wilson

There are many great books soon to be released on this side of the Atlantic. Here's a simple preview to get you ready. Continue Reading »

10 Mar 2023

The Enchanted Worlds of Alan Garner

by Peter J. Leithart

Alan Garner has for a long, long time been plotting complex stories and achieving uncanny effects with matter-of-fact but densely allusive prose. Continue Reading »

3 Mar 2023

The Integrity of Poetry

by Micah Mattix

Last year marked the thirtieth anniversary of Dana Gioia’s Can Poetry Matter?, a follow-up to his famous 1991 article in The Atlantic. The article and book caused quite a stir. Gioia observed that poetry was no longer a part of intellectual life in America. It was not published in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2023