Paul Elie is a senior fellow at Georgetown University and a regular contributor to The New Yorker. His third book, The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2025 and in paperback by Picador in May.
Paul Elie
Articles
Anything Could Become a Battleground
Isaac Butler’s new book mixes history and personal testimony to examine the ‘culture wars’ that shaped the 1980s—conflicts that differed in striking ways from the ones we’re witnessing today.
