Garry Wills

Garry Wills is professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University, and the author of Lincoln at Gettysburg and, most recently, Verdi's Shakespeare.

Women’s Burden

We like to think the painful sacrifices our mothers made are in the past. But are they?

By Garry Wills | Tuesday March 1, 2022

Remembering Bob Silvers

The legendary New York Review of Books editor knew everybody, had read everything, and oversaw every stage of what he published

By Garry Wills | Monday June 5, 2017

A Chesterton With No Flab

A new anthology often obscures the writer’s best work

By Garry Wills | Thursday August 25, 2011

Rome’s Gossip Columnist

When the first-century poet Martial turned his stylus on you, you got the point

By Garry Wills | Saturday March 1, 2008

What Jesus Did

Forget about Christ as secular sage, historical figure, or even as Christian

By Garry Wills | Wednesday March 1, 2006

A Man in It

Lincoln’s Lieutenants

By Garry Wills | Thursday December 1, 2005

Women’s Burden

By Garry Wills | Tuesday March 1, 2022

Remembering Bob Silvers

By Garry Wills | Monday June 5, 2017

A Chesterton With No Flab

By Garry Wills | Thursday August 25, 2011

Rome’s Gossip Columnist

By Garry Wills | Saturday March 1, 2008

What Jesus Did

By Garry Wills | Wednesday March 1, 2006

A Man in It

By Garry Wills | Thursday December 1, 2005

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