David McCullough and the Meaning of History
Why the writer’s work capturing “the Spirit of America” has never been more timely.
Steve King
The Modern Prometheus Turns 200
This year, Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece — and the anxieties it embodied — celebrates is bicentennial.
The World’s Descent
This week: literary critic Harold Bloom turns 85, as questions of what the future holds for “deep reading” loom large.