Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson's most recent book is Barnum: An American Life. He was the editor of the Scholar for more than 17 years.

Departures

By Robert Wilson | Monday June 8, 2015

Zip It

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday March 4, 2015

All Wrapped Up

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday December 10, 2014

The Violent Bear It Away

By Robert Wilson | Monday September 8, 2014

The Aging Boom

By Robert Wilson | Monday June 9, 2014

The Bard of Suburbia

John Updike’s obsession with ordinary life made him the writer by whom we came to know ourselves

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday March 11, 2014

On the Farm

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday March 11, 2014

As Time Goes By

By Robert Wilson | Friday December 6, 2013

Profits and Loss

By Robert Wilson | Thursday September 5, 2013

Strangers

By Robert Wilson | Monday June 10, 2013

Notes and Outtakes

By Robert Wilson | Thursday June 1, 2023

Watch This Space

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday March 1, 2022

At 90

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday December 1, 2021

Critical Thinking

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday September 1, 2021

Interlude

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday June 2, 2021

Slouching Toward Tyranny

By Robert Wilson | Monday March 1, 2021

Unresolved

By Robert Wilson | Monday December 7, 2020

Information Sickness

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday September 1, 2020

Viral Days

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday June 2, 2020

Autonomies

By Robert Wilson | Monday March 2, 2020

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