How Hilton Kramer Got Lost in the Culture Wars

In Defense of Girly Book Covers

Why the Literary Landscape Continues to Disadvantage Women

A Cinematic Revival of Britain’s Most Popular Mid-Century Playwright

Newly Discovered Songs By the Legendary Nick Hathaway

The Subtle Beauty of Renzo Piano’s New Building in Boston

Hajdu: The Many Musical Tributes to Rachel Carson

Some Works of Art Can’t Be Labeled as Fact or Fiction, and That’s OK

What We’ve Lost With the Demise of Print Encyclopedias

The Irredeemably Boring Egotism of Cindy Sherman

Thomson on Film: A Movie About a School Shooting That Ignores the Shooter

Was ‘Frankenstein’ Really About Childbirth?

In Praise of Jean-Émile Laboureur

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The Problem with Oscar Voters: They All Look The Same

No Book Will Fix What’s Wrong With American Parenting

The Pernicious Talk of Decline In the Arts

The Man of the Sword: Two Poems by Nizar Qabbani

A Requiem to an Age of Brilliant Polish Poetry

Correspondence: A Response to TNR’s Article on Tomas Tranströmer