There is no book in the English language more charming than The Wind in the Willows.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is as delightfully strange as its adaptations. What I couldn’t anticipate was its dreamlike calm.

The greatest Talmudist of the 20th century is unknown in the community that cares most about the Talmud—the Orthodox. That wasn’t always so.

Cracked up by divorce and disillusionment, Moses E. Herzog writes letters to the living and the dead.

Rose Macaulay is our witty guide to eight centuries of Anglo-Portuguese exchange.

A letter to the editor on the philosopher Gillian Rose.

No life lived with conviction was ever conflict-free.

Common Sense is historical study, fierce polemic, and impassioned personal plea, all at once.

Who, really, understands the Binding of Isaac, when you come down to it?