add up to. Some days I almost believe the ocean is real, that there really is all that fishing to be done. And some days the sun just hits the buildings all wrong. As usual the sky is a total mess and ...

Four times elected governor of New York state from 1958 to 1970, Nelson Rockefeller spent much of each term seeking the presidential nomination of the Republican Party, to which be belonged, but which ...

Matthew Kadane disarmingly describes his new book as an “intellectual history of nobodies”. Its protagonist is the splendidly named Pentecost Barker, born in Plymouth in 1690, the son of devoutly ...

It is December 25, 1975. Maria Gabriela Llansol writes in her diary of meditation, chickens, her dog, of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Daybreak and the journal kept by the religious historian Mircea Eliade, ...

On September 10, after watching the ABC News debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, I switched to X to judge the response. Not long ago I would have rolled my eyes at a post by the ...

It is often said that English-language authors peddle in ideas and French authors peddle in words. Alice Zeniter is passionate about both. Marked deeply by France’s colonial history, she is an heir to ...

Introducing his excellent anthology of Nineteenth-Century Minor Poets (1967), Auden properly addressed a problem of definition: what is a “minor poet”? Or, to ask the same question the other way round ...