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 La Nueva República, Dissent, Partisan Review, Harpers, Granta, y The Times Literary Supplement. He is also the founder of Salmagundi, an international quarterly focused on politics, culture, literature, and the arts.