The confessions of St. Mario

What's wrong with “P.C.”

The Grinch has it right.

The case against brilliance.

When its Time came, its number was up.

The origin of the specious and the dissent of man

A review of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Band of Outsiders”

Stanley Kauffman's original review of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"

There's way more to Frost than "The Road Not Taken."

A review of William S. Burroughs's 1962 cult novel "Naked Lunch"

Shirley Jackson's short stint with the department store

On the sins of translation and the great Russian short story.

Critic Edmund Wilson reflects on the great writer's legacy.

A review of the publication of R.W. Chapman’s edition of the Novels of Jane Austen, in Five Volumes.

Honoré de Balzac and an assessment of the importance of realism in French literature

The battle for the female vote