Author

Joseph Epstein

Joseph Epstein has written for Commentary for 60 years.

210 articles by Joseph Epstein

Taste: What Is It? Who Needs It? How Do You Acquire It?

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

What’s up, doc?