The great essayist has always refused to bow to the dictates of fashion and remained true to his unflaggingly high standards.
Even the faddish tendencies of a new history of the OED cannot dim its glories.
Kelly Klingman faces long odds in her campaign for city council, but she has sharply distinguished her positions from the incumbent’s.
A masterful new history examines the religious belief—or lack thereof—of England’s prime ministers.
Peter Heather’s massive new history of Christendom somehow never gets around to examining the nature of the Church’s appeal to men and women across centuries.
A dazzling new critical biography of T.S. Eliot’s modernist epic
A salutary history lesson, Leopoldstadt suggests that we can awaken from the nightmare of history only by reclaiming the dignity of its heartache.
On G. M. Trevelyan, history, and the Schools of Saint Mary
In brisk, cinematic prose reminiscent of the author’s own, Richard Greene shows his subject both fair criticism and sympathy.
Even in a pandemic, churches like St. Agnes remain vital to life in New York.
Antonucci weathers the Covid-19 storm.
Amity Shlaes’s brilliant history of 1960s welfare programs and the flawed vision that underpinned them
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