Author

Joseph Epstein

Joseph Epstein has written for Commentary for 60 years.

211 articles by Joseph Epstein

Whatever Happened to Culture?

Name a living painter or poet you admire. You can’t? Ah, then, read on.

An examination

Can writing without judgment be great?

A memoir

Reflections on a dreaded emotion

Revisiting an impossible, imperious, brilliant writer

On Johanna Kaplan and Bette Howland

Was it worth it?

Libraries and their glories

Confessions of an ailurophile

The enduring fascination of a monstrous and brilliant society

Those strange creatures called polymaths