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This Emperor Had Clothes

REVIEW: ‘Meditations’ by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron Poochigian

Joseph Epstein
March 8, 2026
Culture

Tolstoy's Last Novel

REVIEW: 'Resurrection' by Leo Tolstoy

Joseph Epstein
December 21, 2025
Culture

C.P. Cavafy: Cosmopolitan Poet

REVIEW: 'Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography' by Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys

Joseph Epstein
October 26, 2025
Culture

Jews in Revolt

REVIEW: 'Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire' by Barry Strauss

Joseph Epstein
August 24, 2025
Culture

The Pronoun Wars

REVIEW: ‘Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words’ by John McWhorter

Joseph Epstein
April 27, 2025
Culture

Cicero in Court and Out

REVIEW: ‘Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome’ by Josiah Osgood

Joseph Epstein
January 26, 2025
Culture

The History of History

REVIEW: ‘The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present’ by Oswyn Murray

Joseph Epstein
October 20, 2024
Culture

Books Sold Here

REVIEW: ‘The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore’ by Evan Friss

Joseph Epstein
August 4, 2024
Culture

For Pascal, It’s No Mystery

REVIEW: ‘A Summer with Pascal’ by Antoine Compagnon

Joseph Epstein
June 30, 2024
Culture

Rhapsodic on Rachmaninoff

REVIEW: 'Goodbye, Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile' by Fiona Maddocks

Joseph Epstein
February 25, 2024
Culture

Willa Cather’s Nobility

REVIEW: ‘Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather’ by Benjamin Taylor

Joseph Epstein
December 24, 2023
Culture

The Unfun Couple

REVIEW: 'Monsters and Maestros: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner' by Robert Boyers

Joseph Epstein
November 12, 2023
Culture

The Story Behind the Historian

REVIEW: ‘Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History’ by Peter Brown

Joseph Epstein
September 24, 2023
Culture

Russian Assets

REVIEW: 'Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter' by Gary Saul Morson

Joseph Epstein
June 11, 2023
Culture

That Time a Republic Really Ended

REVIEW: ‘Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic’

Joseph Epstein
March 12, 2023
Culture

Mr. Ball-an-chain

REVIEW: ‘Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century’

Joseph Epstein
December 18, 2022
Culture

Lowell’s Limits

REVIEW: ‘Memoirs’ by Robert Lowell

Joseph Epstein
September 18, 2022