The supreme playwright was indebted to the ancient world’s heroism as well as its eroticism. Jonathan Bate’s new book gets the story half right.
When James Poulos met Marilyn Manson in the restroom of the Chateau Marmont, the conversation turned to writer Bret Easton Ellis. Heroes aren’t what they used to be.
Did a controversial biographer who attempted to portray George Orwell as a crypto-Christian know him best?
It’s time for a utopian edition of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel.
For the great Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, political freedom was not of primary importance for human flourishing. But it was a necessary precondition.
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