“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....
The noir author’s personal notebooks have a claim to be her life’s major work....
A new collection of methodical studies of a highly unmethodical form....
George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Mann on militarism and civilization....
Robert Minto reviews Sheila Liming’s “What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books.”...
Robert Minto gets “the full Lawrence experience” from “The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays of D. H. Lawrence.”...
Robert Minto interprets “Sontag: Her Life and Work” by Benjamin Moser....
Robert Minto looks at “A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger” by Joshua Sperling....
Rewriting Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s story....
Robert Minto assays “Montaigne: A Life” by Philippe Desan, which restores the great essayist’s political dimension....
Robert Minto examines John Berger's theory of art expounded in “Landscapes: John Berger on Art," which is characterized by a committed but elastic Marxism....
Robert Minto sorts through the “The Shipwrecked Mind” by Mark Lilla....