We don’t need more literary magazines
Rather, we need better ones
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.
Sunday
Egotistical prose
Plus children and crisis, nuclear fusion, and more
Thursday
Praising multiculturalism
Plus a history of dropping out, how Netflix will die and more
Tuesday
Banning ‘Maus’
Plus, in praise of tweed, a not-so-reactionary J. C. Squire, and more
Sunday
Working out isn’t so new after all
From religion to war, exercise over the centuries has been shaped by many influences
Saturday
Cashing in on BLM
Plus the changing Chinese language, the poetry of Carol Shields, and more
Thursday
The New York Times buys Wordle
Plus a history of clothing, Proust’s humor and more
Tuesday
‘Ulysses’ at 100
Plus medieval sleeping habits, Francis Bacon behind the iron curtain and more
Monday
Russia’s aristocratic anarchist
Plus Damien Hirst’s diamond skull, triggering Harry Potter and more
Sunday
The age of the media explainer
Pundits and scientists love to explain, but what if the answer is too complicated?
Thursday
The brazen dishonesty of armchair postcolonial critical theory
Plus a new translation of Baudelaire, the life of Stephen Crane, and more
Wednesday
Revisiting Toni Morrison’s ‘Recitatif’
Plus W.E.B. Du Bois and Wagner, the CD revival, and more
Monday
Picking a fight
Why Argument Matters by Lee Siegel reviewed
The last conservative critic?
Jeet Heer wonders if Terry Teachout was the last of his kind
Sunday
Dostoevsky’s ‘Demons’ at 150
The other Rome, Van Gogh’s God, and more
Monday
The Great Books debate continues
In praise of VHS, the not-so-dark Dark Ages, and more
Writing and the conservative impulse
All writers are, in a certain sense, conservative
Wednesday
Secularism and social justice
Also: Race is a spectrum; sex is binary
Monday
‘The Fifth Head of Cerberus’ at 50
Check out Gene Wolfe’s minor masterpiece
Friday
Norman Mailer cut
Another new media company, Longform calls it quits, and more
