Devaluation by George Lichtheim London: “What would be the use if people were to say: ‘The British are nice people, but they haven't got…
Dostoevsky, The Notebooks for Crime and Punishment, edited and translated by Edward Wasiolek by Joseph Frank
James Joyce in His Letters by Lionel Trilling In 1935, near the end of a long affectionate letter to his son George in America, James Joyce wrote: “Here…
The Draft Card Gesture by Edward Hoagland A month has gone by since I sent my draft card to President Johnson, “symbolically torn in half,” as I…
The McCarthy Candidacy by Andrew Hacker It is only recently that I have stopped doing a double-take upon encountering lapel-buttons emblazoned “McCarthy.”
Translating the Psalms by Milton Himmelfarb Some of the fundamental texts of Chinese antiquity are so ambiguous, a scholar once told me, that not only what…
TV (Again) by Neil Compton Maybe Mcluhan is right and the medium is the massage, subtly working us over and restructuring the personality.
