The next Chopin piece was the Fantasy in F minor, Op. 49. I felt like I was seeing an old friend. When I was coming of ...

At the cocktail party held upon the publication of Edmund White’s short biography of Proust, Fran Lebowitz congratulated ...

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.

On the author’s sojourn south of the border.

On Hell, I Love Everybody by James Tate, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain by Kazuo Ishiguro, All Souls by Saskia ...

Jones Very got off to a rocky start, born in 1813 to the first cousins Jones and Lydia Very only six months after they wed.

On campus protests & the escape hatch from reality.

The quality of Lenin’s revenge was impersonal. Confronted with the need of killing any particular person he showed reluctance ...

On Wagner’s Siegfried & Götterdämmerung, directed by Andreas Homoki.

It may yet be June, with six months left to go in 2024, but it is all but assured that America Last will stand the test of ...

There “is no comparison anyway,” Solzhenitsyn explains, “because none of our revolutionaries ever knew what a really good interrogation could be.” The chapter on interrogation famously begins: If the ...