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“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....
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.
Articles
Trying to Photograph a Hummingbird: Essays upon Essays
A new collection of methodical studies of a highly unmethodical form....
What They Wrote About the War
George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Mann on militarism and civilization....
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.”...
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.”...
The Struggle to Feel: On Benjamin Moser’s “Sontag: Her Life and Work”
Robert Minto interprets “Sontag: Her Life and Work” by Benjamin Moser....
The Window and the World: On Joshua Sperling’s “A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger”
Robert Minto looks at “A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger” by Joshua Sperling....
The Wound in the Willows
Rewriting Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s story....
The Myth of an Apolitical Montaigne
Robert Minto assays “Montaigne: A Life” by Philippe Desan, which restores the great essayist’s political dimension....
A Smuggling Operation: John Berger’s Theory of Art
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....
Revolutionary Nostalgia
Robert Minto sorts through the “The Shipwrecked Mind” by Mark Lilla....
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