Fall 2024

I had no desire to get to Jerusalem, no expectation of living in Athens, little interest in Rome. I was eighteen. What did I know then about Paris? My whole aim was to live in New York—where I have lived …

Sartre’s New View of Existentialism The first volume of Sartre’s newly published Critique of Dialectical Reason contains two sections, and these, in the author’s own phrase, are “unequal in importance and ambition.” The first, entitled Questions of Method, written in …

Dear Nick: When I read your piece in Partisan Review [Winter 1958] on Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago I was struck by your enthusiasm for the novel (I had not yet read it), and puzzled by the fact that your very great …