ROBERT BOYERS is the author of Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner (Mandel Vilar Press). Previous books include The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy and the Hunt for Political Heresies, The Fate of Ideas: Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals, and a volume of short stories, Excitable Women, Damaged Men. Boyers has also authored hundreds of periodical essays and reviews in publications such as The New Republic, Dissent, Partisan Review, Harpers, Granta, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is also the founder of Salmagundi, an international quarterly focused on politics, culture, literature, and the arts.