T.S. Eliot

Book Review

The wartime admissions of T.S. Eliot

‘I haven’t got enough phlegm to undress,’ writes the poet, exhausted by readings and broadcasts, in letters spanning 1942-44

Craig Raine

On growing old gracefully — and disgracefully

I’d much rather measure out my life with coffee spoons than coke spoons like aging rockers the world over

Cosmo Landesman

The Trump trial is a precursor to how a republic ends

Not with a bang, but a perversion of the law

Roger Kimball

P.G. Wodehouse’s literary canon

His work’s modernity, making such innovative use of the main literary traditions of the West, would have been unimaginable in the nineteenth century

Charles Moore

Politics

Has America lapsed into a gerontocracy?

It used to be said that America was a young country, naive, perhaps, but bristling with youthful energy and optimism

Roger Kimball