“We must stem the tide of malice,” Mary Bennet says to her sister Elizabeth after they learn that the youngest Bennet, Lydia, has run off to London with Mr. Wickham, “and pour into the wounded bosoms...

Now you’re telling me You’re not nostalgic Then give me another word for it You who are so good with words And at keeping things vague                                  — Joan Baez, “Diamonds and...

1. There was a myth in college that Renata Adler had come over to America in a suitcase, and that’s how she got her tremor. Students gossiped about her at Bryn Mawr in the 1950s, and so did writers...

You can trust my characters. Whatever else they are — and they’re not always nice — at least they’re upfront. They don’t hide anything. They scream, laugh, cry, jump around and get drunk. But our...

Jared Marcel Pollen joins Leon Wieseltier to discuss Václav Havel and the proper relationship between power and justice. 

Becca Rothfeld and Celeste Marcus pepper Agnes Callard with questions about motherhood, among them: how it changes one, whether it's possible to prepare for it, and if one's own identity is enriched...

Justin E. H. Smith joins Leon Wieseltier and Celeste Marcus to discuss the gamification of reality, and the pernicious compulsion to control and describe more and more of human existence via algori...

James has gained recognition for his vocal contributions in American gay politics and his advocacy for international gay rights. His efforts were acknowledged when he was honored with the Journalist…...

Elliot Ackerman and Leon Wieseltier talk with Celeste Marcus about American foreign policy. Regarding the decision to pull all troops out of Afghanistan: "We'll

Agnes Callard and Becca Rothfeld join Celeste Marcus to discuss the movie The Night Porter.

Waiting for Two States feels like waiting for the Messiah. Okay, okay, but when? And meanwhile, what?  Asking a civilization that is hemorrhaging – one whose civilians have no government whose...

“Genius and evildoing are two things that do not combine,” Mozart remarks in Mozart and Salieri, Alexander Pushkin’s short play written in 1832. The Mozart of Pushkin’s play is an impure genius. He...

You can trust my characters. Whatever else they are — and they’re not always nice — at least they’re upfront. They don’t hide anything. They scream, laugh, cry, jump around and get drunk. But our...

Where I’m from the summers are hot and humid and getting longer every year, a run of breezeless green months full of screeching crickets and biting flies and birds that wake to sing through the...

Chris McCaffery, of the Washington Review of Books, and Celeste Marcus, managing editor of Liberties, host a salon in which they and a group of lively invested parties ask whether or not books are...