Mindy Aloff
Articles by Mindy Aloff
Expert, Elegant Satire Gently Exposes Media Elite
For her fourth novel, The Emperor’s Children, Claire Messud has put aside her customary sobriety a read more »
Expert, Elegant Satire Gently Exposes Media Elite
Derek Shapton
Claire Messud is the author of When the World Was Steady (1995), The Last Life (1999) and The Hunters (2001). She
For her fourth novel, The Emperor’s Children, Claire Messud has put aside her customary sobrie read more »
A Fair-Weather Friend Weighs the Value of Amity
A few years ago, Joseph Epstein, author of the popular collection of essays Snobbery: The American V read more »
A Fair-Weather Friend Weighs the Value of Amity
Matthew Gibson
Joseph Epstein is the former editor of The American Scholar.
A few years ago, Joseph Epstein, author of the popular collection of essays Snobbery: The American V read more »
A Wonderful World History, Neither Impartial Nor Complete
At the end of a long and productive life, the wise, curious, generous, opinionated and angelically l read more »
A Wonderful World History, Neither Impartial Nor Complete
Estate of E.H. Gombrich/Yale University Press
Ernst Gombrich (1909-2001) has given us a posthumous gift.
At the end of a long and productive life, the wise, curious, generous, opinionated and angelically l read more »
‘Houselust' in Cleveland, Broken Promises in Asbury Park
Happy suburbanite Michael Ruhlman.
House: A Memoir, by Michael Ruhlman. Viking, 243 pages,
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4th of July, Asbury Park: A read more »
'Houselust' in Cleveland, Broken Promises in Asbury Park
House: A Memoir, by Michael Ruhlman. read more »
Music Makes the Memoir-With Hollywood Harmonies
All in Good Time: A Memoir, by Jonathan Schwartz. read more »
Writing, Religion, Nationality: A Close Look in the Mirror
Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer, edited by Derek Rubin. read more »
An Icon of Classical Ballet, Her Intimate Secrets Exposed
Margot Fonteyn: A Life, by Meredith Daneman. Viking, 654 pages, $32.95.
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