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9:37 AM, Apr 12, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

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Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in 'Mr. and Mrs. Bridge' (1990)

A second look at Evan S. Connell's domestic masterpiece.

Feb 25, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 23 • By WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD

The death of Evan S. Connell last month prompts reflection on an American original who, over a lifetime of steady work—many volumes of novels, stories, biography, essayistic speculations—left as his permanent contribution to letters one brilliant, memorable book: the novel Mrs. Bridge, published in 1959.

They’re people, too, and often based in Paris.

Jan 21, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 18 • By JUDY BACHRACH

I’m burning with envy. Here I’ve been plugging away of late in places like Oklahoma City and Scottsdale. Meanwhile, both Susan Mary Alsop and Kati Marton, heroines of two ostensibly different books, had a much better idea.

12:40 PM, May 8, 2012 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, releases his new book The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise today. As you may have guessed from the title, the book is sort of the inverse version of The Road to Serfdom. Given all that is going on politically, the time is certainly right for an influential and intelligent conservative to lay out an optimistic agenda, which is what Brooks has done here.

Recommended Reading: <i>National Affairs</i>

11:45 AM, Apr 27, 2012 • By THE SCRAPBOOK

The Scrapbook has been reading, with great interest and profit, not one but two stellar recent publications of that stellar journal, National Affairs.

11:09 AM, Mar 27, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

Roger Kimball remembers Hilton Kramer:

"It is with great sadness that I report the death of my dear friend and longtime colleague Hilton Kramer, who died early this morning, age 84 (his birthday was just two days ago).

5:38 PM, Mar 16, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

Leon Wieseltier, writing in the New Republic:

3:55 PM, Jan 3, 2012 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

For those interested in things Jewish, the formidable literary critic D. G. Myers has provided a terrific guide to the 38 best Jewish books of 2011, ranging from Jewish history to thought to literature.

12:00 AM, Dec 22, 2011 • By FRED BARNES

The great novelist John Updike once said he’d gotten to know so many writers over his years in the literary world that it limited the books he agreed to review. He didn’t feel comfortable criticizing the books of friends or acquaintances. Updike said this, by the way, in a conversation with Nieman fellows at Harvard in 1978.

Will the leatherbound volume go the way of the eight-track tape?

Sep 19, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 01 • By PHILIP TERZIAN

One of the features of a life in journalism is the casual assumption, expressed by nonjournalists at cocktail parties, that journalists “know” things: have the inside dope, heard the real version, predict the future. I have always defended myself by saying that, apart from being acquainted with public officials and the occasional celebrity, journalists know little more than the average reader. And as for predictions, your guess is as good as mine.

7:00 PM, Aug 23, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

ABC News: Earthquake!

Wall Street Journal: "Rebels Overrun Gadhafi Compound"

Bank of America: "Here's Why Bank Of America's Stock Is Collapsing Again"

7:30 AM, Aug 12, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

New York Times: "Obama Urges Voters To Scold Republicans"

Josh Rogin: "Rick Perry, the 'hawk internationalist'"

8:00 AM, Jun 18, 2011 • By KATE HAVARD

In time for summer, two dispatches of interest from the world of publishing.

Joseph Epstein, finally well read

Jun 13, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 37 • By JOSEPH EPSTEIN

Big Business Progressives, from TR to Obama

12:03 PM, May 28, 2011 • By TIM CARNEY

The Triumph of Conservatism

By Gabriel Kolko

Since he began running for President, Barack Obama has made a full time job of pretending to battle against the special interests. Somehow, even after letting the drug industry write the health-care bill, supporting the Wall Street bailouts, ramping up corporate welfare of all stripes, and sending the government-lobbyist revolving door spinning, Obama gets away with it.

He must have studied Teddy Roosevelt.

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