Essay Celebrity Against Appearances By Bruce Bawer Orson Welles became a star not by creating some great work, but by simply scaring the hell out of people. More
Essay Spies Agents of Betrayal By Lawrence Osborne A reconsideration of Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana. More
Essay Book of Nature And Such Small Deer By Garret Keizer A writer struggles to defend his trees from a pack of hungry deer—“an episode of great vexation and buffoonery.” More
Essay The Future Apocalypse Now By Tom Holland At the close of the first millennium, it seemed assured that the end of the world was nigh. More
Essay The Sea Around Alone By Maggie Shipstead The challenge of the world’s first solo, nonstop, around-the-world yacht race: to endure the danger of the sea, and the strain of solitude. More
Essay About Money Arts Endowment By Tim Parks Banking, metaphysics, and art in fifteenth-century Florence. More
Essay Food Balanced Diets By Daniel Mason Pica is an unexplainable food curiosity—the overwhelming desire to eat the inedible. More
Essay Arts & Letters Beauty Is Shoe By Wendy Steiner Is the model a subject, or is the subject a model? More
Essay Politics Between the Lines By Robert Boyers A look at the crossroads where literature and politics meet, and the relationship between art and ideas. More
