20th Century Notes

John McWhorter,"Thus Spake Zora," City Journal, Summer, looks again at Zora Neal Hurston, who was rediscovered and admired, because of and despite her conservatism.

Adam Kirsch,"Frankfurt on the Hudson," Tablet, 18 August, reviews Thomas Wheatland's The Frankfurt School in Exile.

Gossip:

William Golding and other creeps who wrote well

Recent litigation over history's greatest wine hoax

Finally, farewell to Richard Poirier, a founder of the Library of America, an editor of Partisan Review and founder of Raritan: A Quarterly Review.