Academic whorehouses
On the National Alumni Forum’s report The Shakespeare File: What English Majors Are Really Studying
Annals of liberal prejudice
On Sara Rimer's article in The New York Times on Dartmouth & The Dartmouth Review
Possessing the golden key
by John Herington
The sixth in a series on “The future of the European past,”
Whittaker Chambers: the judgment of history
by Hilton Kramer
On Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus
The importance of T.E. Hulme
by Roger Kimball
On The Collected Writings of T. E. Hulme edited by Karen Csengeri
John Crowe Ransom: Tennessee's major minor poet
by Richard Tillinghast
On the poet & his work
The silence in South Africa: writers chuck it in
by Sarah Ruden
On the state of literature in South Africa
Adaptable properties
by Mark Steyn
On The Waste Land & Ragtime
Picasso from "Les Demoiselles" to "Parade"
by Karen Wilkin
On A Life of Picasso. Volume II: 1907–1917, The Painter of Modern Life by John Richardson with Marilyn McCully
Triangulating & mau-mauing
by James Bowman
On the Ebonics controversy
How good was Auden?
by Jeffrey Hart
Review of Prose & Travel Books in Prose & Verse. Volume I: 1926-1938 by W.H. Auden
Franklin in Pennsylvania
by Richard Brookhiser
Review of Benjamin Franklin, Politician: The Mask & the Man by Francis Jennings
Rigorously equivocal
by Brooke Allen
Review of One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad by Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Benign obscurity
by Donald Justice
On obscurity in poetry