FICTION: Four seasons in academic hell
An excerpt from the new ‘Exit Right’ describes a tumultuous evening when the beatnik confronted the neocon
What happened when Kenneth Fearing’s Communist sympathies came up against his ideas about art?
What Adam Bellow and other conservatives get wrong about the political leanings of creators of imaginative fiction
Shivah Stars
The writer Delmore Schwartz is largely forgotten today, but he once captured the anxieties and hopes of the Jewish intellectuals of the 1930s and stunned his generation with his poems and short stories
A new biography tries to extinguish the myth of the kinder, gentler Trotsky
Whittaker Chambers, Lionel Trilling and the anti-Communist turn
