CVS on Fire

Michael Robbins

The Two Women’s Movements

Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Diana Trilling’s Discontents

To keep up with the New York Intellectuals, Diana Trilling forgot—and forgave—nothing.

Vivian Gornick

The Quiet Discontent of Sarah Manguso

The essayist and poet has made an art out of concision. But what do her essays leave out?

Charlotte Shane

J.M. Coetzee’s Essential Protestantism

In his last two novels, Coetzee has tried to recover the scandal and strangeness of early Christianity.

Adam Kirsch

The Frontiers of American Capitalism

Noam Maggor’s new book captures how it took both sides of the American continent to revitalize the economy after the Civil War.

Eric Foner

Czesław Miłosz’s Space Travels

Having spent four decades in exile, the Polish poet discovered a homeland in his writing.

Stephanie Burt

Thoreau: A Radical for All Seasons

The surprising persistence of Henry David Thoreau.

Jedediah Britton-Purdy