Gallimaufry

Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody''s list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down.

Joseph Epstein''s Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits is the fifth such volume from Ax...