Stephen Metcalf has written on politics, culture and ideas for a wide array of publications, including the New York Observer, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and GQ. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and Travel + Leisure, and a columnist for Slate. Metcalf is writing a book on the cultural transformations of the 1980s, and he previously worked as a speechwriter for Hillary Clinton in her (successful) campaign for the U.S. Senate.

• On Philip Larkin.
• On Imus.
• On gold.
• On right wing boomers.
• On Philip Roth.
• On the death of literary theory.
• On the cool kids of Sweden.