Essays

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In 1929, Thomas Wolfe—whom William Faulkner described as the greatest writer of his generation—published his...

275,232 books were published in the US last year. Don’t publications have an obligation to review only those books that warrant serious consideration?

What does the King of Pop have in common with the main character of an 18th century German novel? Quite a lot, in fact.

We had been looking for Hakeldama for close to an hour, wandering through deep, desertic, geological gouges stubbled with little merkins of shrubbery and low gray trees that look squashed and drained of chlorophyll. The sun did strange...

The topic has come up in our pages regularly over the years.

Turning my inner bibliophile loose in a four-story bookstore is an invitation for disaster.

In a recent essay in n+1, Benjamin Kunkel, in a wide-ranging consideration of technology’s effects on contemporary culture and daily life, writes that the internet and its products feel forced upon us. For anyone who goes online daily—and...

We have discovered more than a half dozen passages in the forthcoming book that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources.