Archive
Discoveries: Franzen, Beachy-Quick, & Baldwin
On 'Farther Away,' 'Wonderful Investigations,' and 'Paris, I love you...'
Supreme Hubris: Theories of Judicial Activism
The inevitability of politics.
The Illusion of Sex: On the Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy
The Charismatic Voice
Five Thrillers for the Summer
All thriller, no filler
Slouching Towards Translation
Faces of Florence
On the lost humanism of Renaissance portraiture
The Morning After
Letter from Australia
What American publication means to Australian writers
YAC Hit List: The Fairy List
The best faeries ever.
Irvin Yalom, interviewed by Jonathan Kirsch
Smothered: Part 3
On 'love, drugs, madness, betrayal, self-deception, and youthful ambition.'
The Sideways Gaze: Roland Barthes’s Travels in China
A unique record of Barthes’s failure to offer a portrait of China.
Letter Received
The Authority Syndicate: Javier Marias
On Javier Marías and the sources of identity in our times