“Fiction was king”

The other day, in his excellent blog at the American Conservative , Alan Jacobs quoted the Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, who recalls...

Joseph Epstein, my teacher

Joseph Epstein’s latest book, Essays in Biography , is being praised hither and yon , although the review over at the Millions , referring...

Bonfire of the ethnicities

Tom Wolfe, Back to Blood (Boston: Little, Brown, 2012). 704 pages. Tom Wolfe has now written four novels—four very big novels—since declari...