Elite Capture, and More

In 1975, Caitlin Flanagan met Joan Didion at a dinner in Berkeley. She’s been chasing Didion ever since ... more »

The digital humanities employ faux rigor to arrive at predetermined certainties. It’s the worst of both worlds... more »

Tobi Haslett on Edmund Wilson, Mary McCarthy, and Irving Howe: “I feel a deep and violent ambivalence toward all of them”…