The Waste Land Remains Contemporary A dazzling new critical biography of T.S. Eliot’s modernist epic Edward Short City Journal, January 13, 2023 Arts and Culture The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, by Matthew Hollis (Faber & Faber, 524 pp., $40) In one of T.S. Eliot’s most influential essays, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919), he declared, in his best pontifical manner, that “The m..