A Novelist’s Reflections on Useful Fictions
Hope Mirrlees is interested in what happens if the power of Fairyland cannot be wholly excluded.
Love and Mr. Lincoln
Posted on February 14, 2023
Image: A cousin of Ann Rutledge declared that this young lady looked very much like Lincoln’s first sweetheart; THR illustration/Shutterstock/Library of Congress.
What if Ann Rutledge had lived, and she and Lincoln had married?
All Ben’s Boys
Posted on February 10, 2023
Image: From left: Katharine Graham, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Howard Simons, and Ben Bradlee discuss Watergate, 1973; Mark Godfrey/TopFoto.
An institution entering the last of its salad days while still running on the fumes of its preening self-importance.
Cosmogonies
Posted on February 8, 2023
Image: “How to Fly Without Wings” by Jeremy Botts; http://www.fiammascura.com/.
Fiction writers are world builders.
What the Light Says We Are
How we become convinced that life demands our devoted love.
Introducing Critical Miniatures
A new, exclusive web series.