Graham Hillard

Honoring the animals that work (and sacrifice) alongside our soldiers and sailors.

The new novel by Ian McEwan is a loose retelling of Hamlet narrated by an erudite, morally engaged fetus. Remarkably, the project is not ridiculous.

The new novel by Ian McEwan is a loose retelling of Hamlet narrated by an erudite, morally engaged fetus. Remarkably, the project is not ridiculous.

Unless I overlooked copies of Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices—or Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal—No Child Left Alone has surely been the most anxiety-producing read at the beach this summer. While my fellow vacationers splashed through the mass-market fiction list, I dove beneath the deep waves…

That Submission, the sixth work of fiction by the French provocateur Michel Houellebecq, was published in France on the day of the Charlie Hedbo assassinations feels like something out of a publicist’s morbid daydream. It considers a near-future in which the French Muslim Brotherhood finds common…

In the spring of 2011, I ditched the academic conference that had brought me to Washington and took the Metro to the Library of Congress. With apologies to the Lincoln Memorial, the library’s Thomas Jefferson Building is surely the most beautiful structure in that great city: a marvel of Italianate…

In his brief and fascinating essay “Subversion: Teaching a Blue Novel in a Red State” (2006), Professor Jesse Kavadlo identifies a shift in our cultural attitude toward the subversive—particularly among those stationed in the academy. In the 1950s, Kavadlo writes,