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Literature Created Behind the Scene

REVIEW: 'Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction' by Laura B. McGrath

Joseph Epstein
August 16, 2026
Culture

Bloomswary

REVIEW: ‘The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom’

Joseph Epstein
June 21, 2026
Issues

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