The death of the review? Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure
Recent announcements at major publications have seen critics losing their positions, an ongoing shift that we should all be alarmed […]
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What John Updike Got Wrong About Katrina
On art, criticism, and my drowned house Gazing at Central Park from the twentieth floor of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper,
The Wandering Fascist
On the New Translation of Maurizio Serra’s ‘Malaparte: A Biography’ There’s a passage in Curzio Malaparte’s Diary of a Foreigner
The golden era of magazines is over
But Graydon Carter’s delightful “When The Going Is Good” takes you back. For ten years, I worked as Books Editor,
Book Review: Justice Denied? Or “Justice Abandoned”?
In Justice Abandoned, Rachel Elise Barkow argues that much of the blame for the blight of American mass incarceration lies with the Supreme Court