Marcel Aymé, 59, is never seen out of doors without dark glasses, which rather befits a Mephistophelian moralist. Hell may be badly paved but it is well lit. Contact us at [email protected] ...

DRY MESSIAH (353 pp.)—Virginius Dabney—Knopf ($4). Like most Methodist ministers at the turn of the century, Virginia’s young (36) James Cannon Jr. was dedicated to the defeat of the Demon ...

A moralist need not be a scold ... published in 1968 and selected as a finalist for a National Book Award. In these essays, Himmelfarb proved to be a masterful observer of the sociology of ...

[Louis] Janover, the ex-editor of Front Noir, who now seems to be the only author in issue #1 of the Cahiers de Front Noir,1 is a moralist, simply because he collected for [Maximilien] Rubel the ...

D id Susan Sontag write her then-husband Philip Rieff’s first book, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959)? That’s the assertion in Benjamin Moser’s Sontag: Her Life and Work, published last ...

His 2003 book on Rockefeller Center was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in history; his latest effort, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, excerpted in this issue, will be published this month.

Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], April 22, 2025 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Tuesday released a commemorative book titled "Dravidian Moralist Tamilavel PT Rajan: Life and Legacy" at ...