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Oct 19, 2024 | 
washingreview.com | Sam Leith |Chris McCaffery
I read the Washington Review of Books for the articles. The next monthly D.C. Salon, on the topic “Is art more beautiful than nature?”, will take place on Friday, October 25. If you would like to attend, please email Chris for the details.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
washingreview.com | Chris McCaffery
We had a new vision that death and the Washington Review of Books are a complimentary pattern. The audio of September’s D.C. Salon, on the topic “Can we choose our beliefs?”, is now available:[If you listen to our recording, you’ll hear Celeste announce with the kindest possible words that later this month I will be taking the role of Associate Publisher of Liberties Journal.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Chris McCaffery
To Washington I came, where there sang all around me in my ears a cauldron of Managing Editors. The next monthly D.C. Salon, on the topic “Can we choose our beliefs?”, will take place on Saturday, September 28. If you would like to attend, please email Chris for the details. In The Lamp, Jude Russo on literary models:There’s a lot of game on the American reserve for the youthful literary hunter.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
eviefordham.substack.com | Evie Solheim |Nadya Williams |Chris McCaffery |Philip Bunn
Welcome back to The Girl’s Guide! I may or may not have written this issue while watching last night’s presidential debate — I hope you didn’t stay up as late as I did. If you missed the most recent issue, find it here. Find me on Instagram and Twitter so you don’t miss anything Girl’s Guide.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
washingreview.com | Morgan Talty |Chris McCaffery
The writer of a recent monograph declares that “many a modern publication would do well to emulate the Washington Review of Books, not only in its taste for the Beautiful in Art but also for the Intellectual in Conversation.”The next WRB x Liberties salon will take place on the evening of June 15th. If you would like to come discuss the topic “Propaganda: do you know it when you see it?” please contact Chris or Celeste Marcus.
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May 25, 2024 | 
washingreview.com | Sara Franklin |Chris McCaffery
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Washington, D.C., they had brotherly love, they had two hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The Washington Review of Books. The recording of last week’s WRB x Liberties salon, “Should you like your friends?” is now available wherever fine podcasts are distributed.
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May 18, 2024 | 
washingreview.com | Deborah Paredez |Chris McCaffery |Irina Dumitrescu |Daniel Lavery
Many a man lives a burden to the Earth; but the Washington Review of Books is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm’d and treasur’d up on purpose to a life beyond life. The next WRB x Liberties salon will take place tonight. If you would like to come discuss the topic “Should you like your friends?” please contact Chris or Celeste Marcus.
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May 8, 2024 | 
washingreview.com | Chris McCaffery
Like Louis XIV—or as tradition has it of him—the Managing Editors, as they went on in years, banished from their style every common word. It was at this time that the school authorities adopted selections from the Washington Review of Books into their text-books. This month’s WRB Presents event will take place on May 14, organized with our friends at the Cleveland Review of Books, and will feature readings from Malcolm Harris, Joseph Grantham, and Margarita Diaz.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
washingreview.com | Chris McCaffery |Ann Kjellberg
For issues of the Washington Review of Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. The next WRB x Liberties salon will be on the evening of April 9. If you would like to come discuss the topic, “Is there loyalty without nationalism?” please contact Chris or Celeste Marcus.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
washingreview.com | Chris McCaffery
“All this she must possess,” added Darcy, “and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading of the Washington Review of Books.”[Usually Chris or I come up with these, but this one’s from Hannah. —Steve]The next WRB x Liberties salon will be on the evening of April 9. If you would like to come discuss the topic, “Is there loyalty without nationalism?”, please contact Chris or Celeste Marcus.
