Reconsiderations September 2006
Learning from tools
A criticism of MFA programs and writing workshops, especially as they affect two recent works of fiction.
A criticism of MFA programs and writing workshops, especially as they affect two recent works of fiction.
A letter from Baghdad.
On Dr. Johnson and Pale Fire.
On the Centre Pompidou’s “Creation and Destruction in Twentieth-Century Art.”
On G. K. Chesterton’s least successful novel.
The cultural life of present-day Dublin.
A translator’s tragic alliance.
A look back at fifty years of National Review.
On two stories in which we “see encapsulated the tragic predicament of modern man.”
On Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities five years later.