Robert Minto

Robert Minto is an essayist and storyteller. His complete bibliography and his monthly newsletter about reading can both be found at robertminto.com.

“Only Lovers Live in the Present”: On the Notebooks of Patricia Highsmith

The noir author’s personal notebooks have a claim to be her life’s major work....

LITERARY CRITICISM

Trying to Photograph a Hummingbird: Essays upon Essays

A new collection of methodical studies of a highly unmethodical form....

MEMOIR & ESSAY

What They Wrote About the War

George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Mann on militarism and civilization....

POLITICS

Unpacking Wharton’s Library

LITERARY CRITICISM

Beneath the Mucous-Paper: On D. H. Lawrence’s “The Bad Side of Books”

MEMOIR & ESSAY

The Struggle to Feel: On Benjamin Moser’s “Sontag: Her Life and Work”

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The Window and the World: On Joshua Sperling’s “A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger”

ART & ARCHITECTURE

POLITICS

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The Wound in the Willows

YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

The Myth of an Apolitical Montaigne

POLITICS

MEMOIR & ESSAY

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A Smuggling Operation: John Berger’s Theory of Art

ART & ARCHITECTURE

POLITICS

Revolutionary Nostalgia

POLITICS