The Hazards of Duke
A now infamous PowerPoint presentation exposes a lot about men, women, sex, and alcohol—and about how universities are letting their female students down.
Book Review
Hard Core
The new world of porn is revealing eternal truths about men and women.
The Frugal Divorcée
How to survive—and even thrive—in the new age of austerity
The American Critic
H. L. Mencken trained American intellectuals in what to like—and how to rebel.
Men Who Love Too Much
Patrick Hamilton’s exceptional, and overlooked, novels show that falling in love with the wrong person is misery—and it isn’t much fun for the wrong person either.
How Broadway Conquered the World
America’s most energetic art form owes its success to compulsive singability.
Smaller Than Life
Jonathan Franzen’s juvenile prose creates a world in which nothing important can happen.
Almost Noble
Tony Blair’s memoir reveals him to be neither a cynic nor an innocent, but a man of some principle.
Killing Her Softly
A measured, sympathetic—and ultimately damning— portrait of the 20th century’s most wickedly funny novelist
Chosen
The toxin of anti-Semitism isn’t a threat only to Jews.