Perusing Volume One, I was struck by the sensitivity and the unerring perception in these unknown reviews, ultimately my most enjoyable reading of the year.

Robert Kraft, conductor and writer on music, Times Literary Supplement

The editors...have done their job with commendable thoroughness.

P. N. Furbank, Times Literary Supplement

An important and admirable publishing event.

Atlantic Monthly

There is much to enjoy in these volumes...they are important as a document of his times.

Economist

He writes with an easy assurance and a command of classical and modern cross-references.

Christopher Hitchens, Los Angeles Times

To read all the essays in sequence is like being enrolled at the college of your dreams.

The New Yorker