What a scholar learned from the Victorians.

Gertrude Himmelfarb wanted the Jewish people to be defined by the qualities that had enabled it to endure.

Antonia Fraser’s diary and Harold Pinter’s (temporary) homecoming.

A little anxiety doesn’t hurt.

Daniel Deronda and the post-traditional world.

If you read one 750-page book this year, it should be this one.

A novel for our times, and an exposition “more gripping than anything on Netflix.”