The Popper Principle

Olga Tokarczuk and the Edge of Poland

One Hundred Years of Gossip

Isengard in Oxford

Turn around and run

A Thousand and One Nights in Italy

Compassionate Curmudgeon: Why we must root ourselves in the real world

The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”

The Psychology of Portnoy: On the Making of Philip Roth's Groundbreaking Novel

The Great Butterfly Heist

The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel

The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes review – wild times with young Tennyson

The Master and Mikhail Bulgakov

I Have a Wodehouse Problem. The Problem Is I Can't Stop Reading Him

Wimpy vs. McDonald's: The Battle of the Burgers

What Happens If No One Reads

Dark Academia Grows Up

A Rebel Writer's First Revolt

Another cruise: Re-reading "Moby-Dick" at Ahab's age

Mano a Mano: Boxing and the good life

The Politics of 'Paradise Lost'

Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths

Among the Blasphemers

'Constantine Cavafy' Review: A Poet's Odyssey Within

Poet, Artist, Tantric Christian

Sneaking into the Spy Museum's New Vault

Viral Language

Jane Austen's Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood

Goethe's Faustian Life

They Were Identical 'Twinnies' Who Charmed Orwell, Camus and More

They Were Identical 'Twinnies' Who Charmed Orwell, Camus and More

Ghosts and Dolls

Tolkien Against the Grain

Done in by Time

Tall Man Lettering

In Its Purest Form

Delmore's Gift

Freelance Blues: James Baldwin in the Magazines

"The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person"

George Orwell and me: Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father

Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet?

Rest Easy

‘The Celts: A Modern History’ by Ian Stewart Review

Toni Morrison's Lost Play

Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe?

Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought

All Is Unfinished: Henri Bergson's philosophy for our times

Without Pennies, What Becomes of Penny Loafers?

Ben Hecht's Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut

I'm Ready for You: On Balzac

My Cat Mii

Remembering Nan Shepherd

David Lodge, British novelist who satirized academic life, has died

In search of a new 20th-century canon

Writing as Transformation

Self Unhelped: On psychoanalysis and therapeutic culture

The Bitter Aftertaste of "Technical Sweetness"

The world of Dante's Divine Comedy

Henry James and H.G. Wells (1958)

Edging Toward Japan: In his mind's eye, Rembrandt was always headed toward Japan

The Pilgrim as a Historian

The Problem of Thinking Too Much (2002)

Philosopher of Change: How Henri Bergson's View of Reality Came to Be

Auden's Island

An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker

How Should Debut Novelists Measure Success?

What is considered ‘moderate drinking’?

James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, Novelist

Adventures with Jean

Others

Historical Fiction Redefined the Literary Canon

Don't Take Advice from a Habsburg

Against Rereading

The Race for Lambeth Palace

Book Review: ‘Christopher Isherwood Inside Out’

Anger over sale of George Orwell archive

From McMurdo Sound to Flanders Fields

The Phantoms Haunting History

Anna O.: The woman behind Freud's first case study

The Leopold and Loeb case, a century Later

Can men live without war? (1956)

How to live with dying (2020)

Martin Amis and the pursuit of pleasure

Don't be terrified of Pale Fire

The Special Challenges of Attempting a New Translation of Kafka

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

Music vs. Lyrics

The Death of a Mnemonist

'I remember Paul Auster': a tribute by Jonathan Lethem to his friend

Art and Memory

Rare editions of Pushkin are vanishing from libraries around Europe

Camaraderie between two soldier poets

How Penelope Fitzgerald became a late blooming novelist

On the 200th anniversary of Byron's death, two new books

New edition of Emily Dickinson's letters upends the myth of her reclusive genius

Orwell’s Escape

Beginners," Edited: The transformation of a Raymond Carver classic (2007)