The Parson’s Tale

An Unquenchable Gaiety of Mind

On visits to Cambridge University late in life, Jorge Luis Borges offered revealing last thoughts about his reading and writing

Justice for Sale

How big money is overwhelming judicial elections and corroding our confidence in the courts

Risky Journeys

A cautionary tale of quixotic ambition and heroic achievement

James Joyce: A New Biography By Gordon Bowker

The Right Honourable Mr. Burke

Impassioned orator, eloquent statesman, esteemed writer—but who was Edmund Burke the man?

Coming of Age

Three bright young American women in the City of Light

Dreaming In French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis By Alice Kaplan

Living With Voices

A new way to deal with disturbing voices offers hope for those with other forms of psychosis

Cradle to Grave

The games we play and the arguments we have

The Mansion Of Happiness: A History of Life and Death By Jill Lepore

Archy and Mehitabel

Con Man

A writer catalogs his great-grandfather’s infamous crimes

A Disposition To Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States By Geoffrey C. Ward

A Feast of Fat Things

After umpteen years of living in America, an English writer gives thanks for its salient pleasures

Artful Lies

A deception signals a new age

Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty By Modris Eksteins

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