Policing the Pulitzers
Plus: Roman mosaics in Croatia, Peter Hitchens on getting fat and more
Micah Mattix
Micah Mattix is a senior editor of The Spectator’s World edition and the author of the Prufrock newsletter. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New Criterion, the Atlantic and many other publications.
Tuesday
Monday
Enjoy fishing, but don’t overthink it
There may be lessons to be learned from fishing, but I haven’t learned any
Saturday
The credibility of the humanities
Plus: The birth of modern spirituality, journalistic originality and more
Thursday
Auden in America
Plus: The Times’s new executive editor, a history of dueling and more
Tuesday
The politics of unhappiness
Plus: The origin of the blues, juvenile Jane Austen and more
Sunday
Robert B. Shaw sees things as they are
He is one of those poets who is profound without sounding so
Friday
Margaret Atwood: feelings are not ‘justifications’
Plus: In praise of Ivan Turgenev, revisiting Crome Yellow and more
Tuesday
The other Winslow Homer
Plus: The future of conservatism, Bob Dylan’s paintings and more
Sunday
Is the white male novelist disappearing?
They’re not gone, but they are being ignored by literary prize committees
Surrealism and freedom
Plus: Antony and Cleopatra at war, when cowboys were progressives and more
Thursday
Charles Isherwood replaces Terry Teachout
Plus: The first streaming platform, revising Beethoven and more
Tuesday
The possibilities of travel
Plus: Stalin’s books, the real Raphael and more
Monday
Is Andy Warhol really an artist?
The Supreme Court will grapple with that question in an upcoming copyright case
Friday
What kids are reading
Plus: Weird Donne, in defense of markets and more
Thursday
Can AI write real poems?
Plus: A 9,000-year-old shrine, why Christopher Alexander matters and more
Tuesday
Wallace Stevens and the magic of stuff
The poet loved collecting bric-a-brac from around the world for a reason
The future of highbrow culture
Plus: The decline of the American elite, John Berryman’s letters, and more
Saturday
The end of the MLA
Plus: Evelyn Waugh in Hollywood, Wittgenstein at war and more
Thursday
A new magazine on the right
Plus: The state of higher ed, Greek myths and more
A private life
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein, edited and translated by Marjorie Perloff, reviewed