Robert Minto

Robert Minto is a writer of fiction, essays, and book criticism. He lives in Pittsburgh.

Unpacking Wharton’s Library

Robert Minto reviews Sheila Liming’s “What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books.”...

LITERARY CRITICISM

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

Robert Minto gets “the full Lawrence experience” from “The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays of D. H. Lawrence.”...

MEMOIR & ESSAY

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

Robert Minto interprets “Sontag: Her Life and Work” by Benjamin Moser....

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