My first contact with Leon Wieseltier was by letter. The year was 1977. Written on Balliol College, Oxford, letterhead stationery, the letter informed me that I was a force for superior culture in ...

A healthy profit, to say nothing of simple self-support, is generally conceded to be far beyond the reach of today’s intellectual journals. They measure their success on another level—by the quality, ...

Much of my education, such as it is, is owing to intellectual journalism. I first discovered the intellectual journals—Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review, Dissent, Encounter, and others—in ...