To eat well in Britain, Somerset Maugham observed in those imperial days before Indian and Chinese restaurants and Elizabeth David and designer chefs had contrived to transform the culinary habits of a nation, it was necessary to eat breakfast three times a day. And what breakfasts they were, the sizzling bacon and the plump sausages, […]

My friends are much too ironic and cliché-averse ever to ask me in earnest if I want to “do lunch.” I’m not sure how long ago the phrase “Let’s do lunch” came into currency, but it seems now to have the standing of one of those empty little lies, like “Have a nice day”, that […]

Being a club man, I rarely go to dinner parties in private homes because they have no menu. That’s not true. Yes, I do enjoy an epicurean menu, but I also enjoy the company of friends in their home. I suppose I am embarrassed by home invitations because, having lived at the club for so […]

Edmund Wilson was a man of immense erudition, and many quirks. Few biographers can hope to do him justice; his most recent one hasn't.

Leo Marx's strikingly original account of how 19th-century Americans tried to refashion the pastoral ideal still resonates.

Letters from Robert Stavins, S. Fred Singer, Ian Parry, Senator Joseph Lieberman and Roger Carstens

A long-forgotten Korean War POW debacle sheds light on the perils of military detention.

Preemption against 21st-century threats is justified and necessary. It may be time, therefore, to move beyond the UN Charter.