Paul is Lily’s gay best friend and closest romantic confidant. Grating portmanteaus are a crucial part of their relationship.

I can’t name the seven major types of plastic, but I’m pretty sure I’ve thrown them all away. Crumpled them up, peeled them off the bottom of my shoe, chucked them like basketballs after saying, “For ...

The Pornographer, by John McGahern. New York Review Books. 272 pages. $17.95. If you were asked to name the finest Irish writer of the second half of the twentieth century, a strong case could be made ...

Donald Trump’s second victory cannot be attributed to any unhappy accident of eighteenth-century constitutionalism. This time, he won not only the Electoral College, that antique curiosity, but the ...

This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers.

"I have no use for politicians," says Fritz Leutwiler, head of the Bank for International Settlements. "They lack the judgment of central bankers" ...

The elders of the church find no scripture that would prohibit you from carrying a legally concealed firearm while worshipping our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Please keep all firearms holstered ...

From I’m Always Looking Up and You’re Jumping, which will be published next year by Penguin.

From F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered, which will be published this month by Camden House. I did protest against traipsing across Carolina to see Scott. I felt a sense of ignominy… ...

From “I Was So Hopeful for You,” collected in the anthology What My Father and I Don’t Talk About, which will be published in May by Simon & Schuster. Before… ...

From “I Was So Hopeful for You,” collected in the anthology What My Father and I Don’t Talk About, which will be published in May by Simon & Schuster. Before my father sent me the email I’d been ...