"If you had asked me when I was growing up what the most important good in life was, I would have said, ‘freedom,’" Pulitzer Prize winner Louis Menand writes in the preface to “The Free World: Art and ...

Last week, I was halfway through Louis Menand’s “The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War” when an odd but troubling question crossed my mind: Does anyone still care about Lionel Trilling? Do ...

“I’m not happy that you’re writing this article, you know,” Louis Menand says to me. He laughs briefly after he says this—to make me feel at ease, I think—but quickly reverts to his default poker face ...

Harvard English professor and Pulitzer-winning writer Louis Menand will receive the National Humanities Medal for his writings on cultural history from President Barack Obama at the White House ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Louis Menand’s Cold War cultural history “The Free World” and Hanif Abdurraqib’s meditation on Black artistry “A Little Devil in America” are among the works on the nonfiction ...

Robert Siegel talks to Louis Menand about his new book, The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University. Menand, a Harvard University English professor and New Yorker writer ...

Brian Rosenberg’s Jan. 7 “review” of Louis Menand’s review in the New Yorker “Too good for this world: What do we want from great-books courses?” Dec. 20. 2021 Rosenberg’s review of a book review is ...

Louis Menand understands better than most academics why universities struggle to make a “clear and compelling” defense of their high cost, said Wilfred M. McClay in The Wall Street Journal. Higher ...

FILE - Author Louis Menand appears at a ceremony honoring him with the 2015 National Humanities Medal in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 22, 2016. Menand’s Cold War cultural ...

“If you had asked me when I was growing up what the most important good in life was, I would have said, ‘freedom,’” Pulitzer Prize winner Louis Menand writes in the preface to “The Free World: Art and ...