On a tangent: If you want to understand what Robert Silvers and the New York Review of Books was/is about, and a compelling vision of what an intellectual publi

On a tangent: If you want to understand what Robert Silvers and the New York Review of Books was/is about, and a compelling vision of what an intellectual publication can be, read the posthumous tributes to him by the writers (including some names you will recognize): http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/03/21/remembering-bob-silvers/ http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/03/21/remembering-bob-silv... IMHO (very H), the London Review of Books attains that passionate vision while its NY aunt strives for it.