An excerpt from Madame Proust: A Biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano (and more). The father of all memoirs: A look at what Edmund Gosse could teach today's memoirists. Janet Malcolm's search for the real Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas exposes some hard truths about the duo and biography itself. From The Atlantic Monthly, Christopher Hitchens reviews Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s by Edmund Wilson. The first chapter from Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947. From Logos, court jesters in Absurdistan: A review of Rebel With a Cause: Liberal Satire in Post War America by Stephen Kercher. What, MAD Worry? Examining culture for over 50 years, the humor magazine still has no shortage of good material. A triumph of banality: In an age where everyone can be a critic, we risk losing a vital aspect of our cultural life. A review of The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982. A review of Other Colors: Essays and a Story by Orhan Pamuk.
