Literary allusions are everywhere. What are they good for? By A.O. Scott You see it everywhere, even if you don’t always recognize it: the literary allusion. Quick! Which two big novels of the past ...

Turtle Point. 470 pp. Paperback, $17.50Like so many of the modernist works he teaches, George Stade, a professor of 20th-century literature at Columbia, has produced 500 pages that never quite settle ...

The New York Times' David Brooks and The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens are ranked among the Atlantic 50 for a reason. Today, the influential conservative columnists tackled the same ...

I dedicate this article to Mark Fisher, whose writing on themes that run close to S.T.A.R.V.E.’s heart serves as another intertextual source of power for the LP. In 2014, Fisher wrote: "The pandemic ...

I enjoyed the subtle reference to Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” in Devra First’s argument in favor of cold lobster rolls (”Is the best lobster roll hot or cold?”, Food, June 19). Bishop is ...