Adam Kirsch
Saul Bellow’s Gift: A Life Of Observation
A new biography of the American novelist presents a comic genius who never claimed to be exemplary
A Reputation More Durable Than Marble
What does it take to achieve lasting poetic fame in an age of glut?
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?