Poor liberal arts. People don’t esteem the term—or its cousin, “liberal education”—very much these days, it seems. Evaluating the success…

The Kreutzer Sonata Variations: Lev Tolstoy’s Novella and CounterstoriesBy Sofiya Tolstaya and Lev Lvovich Tolstoy(Yale, 384 pages, $40) A month…

Whit Stillman’s reputations rests upon a small body of work. After The Last Days of Disco (1998), he seemed, for…

Slava Gelman emigrated to America from the Soviet Union when he was only a child. Though the rest of his…

Is there anything better than watching television about the past, when people were wrong about everything? The past, with its…

Arts & EntertainmentsBy Christopher Beha(Ecco, 288 pages, $14.99) Eddie Hartley is a failure. His acting career barely extends beyond a…

Are vampires scary? Though by all rights they should be, they’ve never really frightened me. Or even been that compelling,…

There’s a wonderful subplot in the new season of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black that follows Rosa (Barbara Rosenblat), a…

If you were following the great Commencement Speaker Bloodbath of 2014, you might have noticed that there were two stories…

May marked the end of the fifth season of The Good Wife, the CBS legal procedural/political drama/soap opera. Produced by…