Fiction
Albert Camus on Dostoevsky and Nihilism (in French)
The Revolution in Feeling
AT THE END of Stanley Corngold’s introduction to this new translation of Goethe’s great novel of romantic longing, a passage from J.M. Coetzee’s Youth is adduced to prove an eighteenth-century German classic’s relevance: READ MORE >>
The Town of Life
On Her Own Two Feet
Absent and Present
Nazism on Holiday
Leo Tolstoy in His Final Years
Claude Monet at Work
Thriller Default Swaps
What is the Meaning of it, Watson?
IN AUGUST 1889, Joseph Stoddard, the editor of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, invited Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle to lunch in London. The two authors left with two contracts: Wilde for The Picture of Dorian Gray and Doyle for The Sign of the Four, the second Sherlock Holmes novel. The stalwart, bluff Doyle, the Scottish physician who invented Sherlock Holmes, and the high-mannered Wilde have more in common than you might have thought. READ MORE >>
