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.

What They Wrote About the War

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

POLITICS

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”

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