Let Leonard Cohen, T.S. Eliot, and more, inspire some contemplation
The great critic’s sparkling new tour of American literature illuminates the sublime life of books
The expatriate British writer’s unfinished potboiler marks a milestone in depictions of Jewish characters
Also had an early reverence for Eliot, is exactly who we thought he is
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
Lost Books
How Louis Zukofsky grappled with Marxism, music, and math