Reconsiderations September 2006
Learning from tools
A criticism of MFA programs and writing workshops, especially as they affect two recent works of fiction.
Department: “Reconsiderations”
Reconsiderations June 2006
Art imitates war
A letter from Baghdad.
Reconsiderations May 2006
Shade’s shadow
On Dr. Johnson and Pale Fire.
Reconsiderations March 2006
Bang or whimper?
On the Centre Pompidou’s “Creation and Destruction in Twentieth-Century Art.”
Reconsiderations March 2006
Naughts & crescents
On G. K. Chesterton’s least successful novel.
Reconsiderations February 2006
Wilde, Synge & Orpen
The cultural life of present-day Dublin.
Reconsiderations February 2006
That most awful poem, the Aeneid
A translator’s tragic alliance.
Reconsiderations November 2005
Buckley at the beginning
A look back at fifty years of National Review.
Reconsiderations April 2005
Chekov & Tolstoy
On two stories in which we “see encapsulated the tragic predicament of modern man.”
Reconsiderations January 1993
You don’t say
On Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities five years later.