How Do They Know This? An informative and apolitical new book reminds us that statistics are not always what they seem. Christopher J. Snowdon 8 Dec 2022 · 6 min read
Islamist Terror; Journalistic Error In a valuable new book, historian Richard Landes argues that Western reporting on the Second Palestinian Intifada helped to seed a misunderstanding of terrorism. Jeffrey Herf 2 Dec 2022 · 19 min read
Murakami On Writing In his new book, Murakami attempts to set the limits of what he wants people to know about him—and that isn’t much. David S. Wills 24 Nov 2022 · 11 min read
The Real Star of M*A*S*H A personal tribute to the overlooked genius of writer W.C. Heinz. Kevin Mims 11 Oct 2022 · 13 min read
Two Hundred Years of Stendhal 2022 marks the bicentennial of the pseudonym’s transformation from literary dabbler into one of the greatest novelists of the modern age. Robert Zaretsky 5 Oct 2022 · 11 min read
Getting Fletch Wrong Jon Hamm’s portrayal is an improvement on Chevy Chase’s goofball routine, but still bears little relation to the amoral cad in Gregory McDonald’s novels. Kevin Mims 23 Sep 2022 · 16 min read
Peter Straub, 1943–2022 Farewell to another of the Big Six novelists from the Golden Age of American horror fiction. Kevin Mims 12 Sep 2022 · 13 min read
Go Ask Beatrice: Notes on a Dishonest Decade An outstanding new book tells the story of a wildly successful literary hoax. But it was just one of many. Kevin Mims 2 Aug 2022 · 29 min read
The Delia Demolition Why is the Atlantic slinging mud at the 72-year-old author of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ on the eve of the film’s release? Kevin Mims 19 Jul 2022 · 19 min read
Céline, Literary Antichrist If we demand that our artists be angels, we will not have any art left to appreciate. RJ Smith 11 Jul 2022 · 9 min read
Has Olivia Manning’s ‘Fortunes of War’ Finally Found Its Moment? The Ukrainian war has made Manning’s writing more relevant now than at any time since it was written. Robin Ashenden 2 Jun 2022 · 11 min read
Roya Hakakian and How to Speak About What No One Wants to Hear The combined threats against Roya Hakakian and Masih Alinejad suggest a broader policy of violence and intimidation on the part of the Islamic Republic and its operatives in the United States. Paul Berman 27 May 2022 · 35 min read
Hofstadter’s Paranoid Style Revisited Hofstadter argued that McCarthyism was simply the latest iteration of a longstanding American tradition. Michael J. Totten 16 May 2022 · 9 min read
Get Ready for the Return of the Abortion Novel The abortion novels that proliferated in the late 1960s were filled with characters who are forced by carelessness and circumstance to make the most agonizing of personal choices. Kevin Mims 5 May 2022 · 26 min read
