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July 11, 2025

Articles of Note

Can college students read? Skeptics marshal damning anecdotes, but hard data is hard to come by... more »


New Books

The Salt Path is the latest memoir with an author accused of fabrication or embellishment. Why does it keep happening?... more »


Essays & Opinions

Mountains rise, species disappear — in the incomprehensible vastness of time we encounter the geological sublime... more »


July 10, 2025

Articles of Note

Can racial complexity be taught in a college classroom? Thomas Chatterton Williams finds resistance in students’ perception of “moral clarity”... more »


New Books

“Novels are better than television, but the surest way to make money from novels is to write with television in mind”... more »


Essays & Opinions

Engagement with art and literature is a way of turning toward the world, towards reality, even in a state of captivity or desolation... more »


July 9, 2025

Articles of Note

Muriel Spark, obsessed with biography, authorized one of herself — which she came to describe as “slander” and “defamation”... more »


New Books

Born into a Mormon family in Utah, the pioneering lesbian poet May Swenson found her footing in Greenwich Village... more »


Essays & Opinions

The science of consciousness has stagnated around two opposing approaches: physicalism and idealism. There’s another way... more »


July 8, 2025

Articles of Note

Offering salaries from $200,000 to $300,000, The Atlantic has assembled a new “A-team” of writers... more »


New Books

A “trance evangelist,” an Indian guru, Andrew Jackson, Oprah — in America, charisma takes on many forms... more »


Essays & Opinions

Geoff Dyer has been described as an “essayist,” “comic writer,” “humorist,” and worst of all, “travel writer.” How dare they, he asks... more »


July 7, 2025

Articles of Note

Fewer novels are being published by white male authors. And those that are published receive little acclaim. Why?... more »


New Books

Paradise Lost was not acclaimed by its first readers. Then came John Dryden, who popularized and distorted Milton's masterpiece... more »


Essays & Opinions

For Kurt Vonnegut, survival was a kind of "cosmic joke, with death being the setup and life being the punch line"... more »


July 4, 2025

Articles of Note

The tyranny of optimization. Why the push to become better, faster, stronger, smarter, generates so much despair ... more »


New Books

Bocaccio, a relentlessly autobiographical author, put his fickleness and neuroticism on display in his work... more »


Essays & Opinions

Only mediocrities adhere to rules of writing, so make your prose purple — the purpler the better... more »


July 3, 2025

Articles of Note

People interested in advancing knowledge once paid little heed to universities. But something changed in Germany at the turn of the 19th century... more »


New Books

Have you heard about the classicist who wants to do away with classics? Meet Walter Scheidel... more »


Essays & Opinions

The geopolitical stakes of the race for AI dominance prompt a thorny question: Can we preserve both our humanity and our security?... more »


July 2, 2025

Articles of Note

"In the history of the advice column, one can glimpse the history of what can be said in public, and by whom"... more »


New Books

Plato has been pressed into service as the avatar of an intellectual tradition so often that it's easy to forget he was a person... more »


Essays & Opinions

Why do writers write? For pleasure, meaning, money, fame – and for no reason at all. Lydia Davis explains... more »


July 1, 2025

Articles of Note

It's never been easy to "make it" as a musician. These days it's easier to make music but harder than ever to earn a living from it... more »


New Books

William F. Buckley Jr. embodied conservatism in America. Yet he had trouble defining what it is or ought to be... more »


Essays & Opinions

The mystery of Sylvia Plath is that she was simply ordinary right up to the point that she became extraordinary... more »


June 30, 2025

Articles of Note

“Put all of digital media’s effects together and you have a recipe for reversing many of literacy’s impacts on consciousness and culture”... more »


New Books

At Random House, Toni Morrison was an exacting editor. She turned her authors’ talent, and her own, into cultural and literary power... more »


Essays & Opinions

Humans have long mistaken fluency for presence. Now, with the rise of hyper-fluent AI, our notions of identity will be tested... more »


June 27, 2025

Articles of Note

With research continuing, preliminary results suggest that the cognitive cost of relying on AI is real... more »


New Books

Was Virginia Woolf a depressed recluse? Or a sociable type who enjoyed intimate dinner parties? A new collection of letters suggests the latter... more »


Essays & Opinions

The doubt disorder. At the 28th Annual OCD Conference, Andrew Kay asks: What is OCD, and where does it come from?... more »


June 26, 2025

Articles of Note

Freelance writing, informal DJ sets, working retail — even seemingly successful musicians are having trouble making ends meet... more »


New Books

Hubris and design thinking: The history of design is full of utopian projects that failed to make a difference... more »


Essays & Opinions

“Offense has become so large and so accepted a part of our response to art that it can sometimes seem we’ve endowed it with unimpeachable authority”... more »


June 25, 2025

Articles of Note

In the 19th century, microphotography was a scientific marvel. In no field was it adopted more quickly than in espionage and erotica... more »


New Books

Steven Shapin: “The duty of genius may be total dedication to solving scientific puzzles, but the price of genius will be paid by other people”... more »


Essays & Opinions

For influential 20th-century anthropologists, religion could not be reduced to its social function or explained away by other metadiscourses... more »


June 24, 2025

Articles of Note

In the ’60s and ’70s, the study of British royals was seen as elitist, trivial, even pointless. Today, however, royal studies are flourishing... more »


New Books

Those in Gen Z are having less sex, and when they do have it, they are doing so in arcane arrangements. Is that a problem?... more »


Essays & Opinions

Geoff Dyer: “The humor in my later books is sometimes very adolescent, which strikes me as a good sign — immaturing with age”... more »


June 23, 2025

Articles of Note

Best sellers were once written by authors like Mary McCarthy and J.D. Salinger. Now they’re written by those like James Patterson. What changed?... more »


New Books

Technology elevates efficiency over friction and seamlessness over inconvenience. Is that a bad thing?... more »


Essays & Opinions

“Violence follows Harry Crews around like an oversized lapdog, eager to spring upon him with bone-crunching love”... more »


June 20, 2025

Articles of Note

Zelig with a paintbrush. Edward Burra was in Paris with Josephine Baker, in Mexico with Malcolm Lowry, and in Spain just before its civil war... more »


New Books

In America, has the backlash against Marxism been more influential than the theory itself? ... more »


Essays & Opinions

You won’t look to ChatGPT as a role model for the life of the mind, but A.I. has readerly strengths that lie precisely in its impersonality... more »


June 19, 2025

Articles of Note

In 1781 a semicolon appeared once every 90 words. Today it shows up once every 390 words. Is this progress?... more »


New Books

Tom Crewe on the “ridiculous, sententious” writing of Ocean Vuong: “It was one of the worst ordeals of my reading life”... more »


Essays & Opinions

Politicians love to mock seemingly useless studies of shrimp treadmills and gecko mechanics — but silly science plays a vital role... more »


June 18, 2025

Articles of Note

What’s discussed at the Dull Men’s Club? Windshield wipers, coat hangers, and mailboxes, among other banalities... more »


New Books

Thomas Mallon has mastered the bitchy aperçu and brisk, summarizing detail. In short, he's an ideal diarist... more »


Essays & Opinions

James Schuyler, whose poems exuded calm, was prone to anxiety attacks, nervous breakdowns, morbid depressions, and manic episodes... more »


June 17, 2025

Articles of Note

Get published for $20, co-author with a Nobel Prize-winner for $700: With academic paper mills, anything seems possible — for a fee... more »


New Books

Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker seek to parochialize the human, showing that our activities may just be a cosmic sideshow... more »


Essays & Opinions

Geniuses behaving badly is a historical commonplace.  Indeed, it's enough to wonder if the label is a license to misbehave... more »


June 16, 2025

Articles of Note

The fact checker's improvised dance: Intuition, calculation, and the seeking of truth... more »


New Books

An architect’s eccentric residential design, a manifesto house, is a rare instance of an artist putting polemic into practice... more »


Essays & Opinions

The impossible genre. Biography incorporates every style and school. We categorize it as nonfiction, “but its facts ride upon a raft of speculation”... more »


June 13, 2025

Articles of Note

Patricia Highsmith asked one question when hiring an assistant: “Do you like Hemingway?” “No” was the only permitted response... more »


New Books

The Divine Comedy, repeatedly rescued from obscurity, has long perched awkwardly between canonical reverence and cultural neglect... more »


Essays & Opinions

“Giving out a prize for novels is a bit like a priest taking Sunday confession from the whole congregation and then giving out awards to the best ones”... more »




Subscribe to our Newsletter

Articles of Note

Can college students read? Skeptics marshal damning anecdotes, but hard data is hard to come by... more »


Can racial complexity be taught in a college classroom? Thomas Chatterton Williams finds resistance in students’ perception of “moral clarity”... more »


Muriel Spark, obsessed with biography, authorized one of herself — which she came to describe as “slander” and “defamation”... more »


Since 1998, Arts & Letters Daily has linked to more than 17,000 articles, book reviews and essays. Consider supporting us. »

Offering salaries from $200,000 to $300,000, The Atlantic has assembled a new “A-team” of writers... more »


Fewer novels are being published by white male authors. And those that are published receive little acclaim. Why?... more »


The tyranny of optimization. Why the push to become better, faster, stronger, smarter, generates so much despair ... more »


People interested in advancing knowledge once paid little heed to universities. But something changed in Germany at the turn of the 19th century... more »


"In the history of the advice column, one can glimpse the history of what can be said in public, and by whom"... more »


It's never been easy to "make it" as a musician. These days it's easier to make music but harder than ever to earn a living from it... more »


“Put all of digital media’s effects together and you have a recipe for reversing many of literacy’s impacts on consciousness and culture”... more »


With research continuing, preliminary results suggest that the cognitive cost of relying on AI is real... more »


Freelance writing, informal DJ sets, working retail — even seemingly successful musicians are having trouble making ends meet... more »


In the 19th century, microphotography was a scientific marvel. In no field was it adopted more quickly than in espionage and erotica... more »


In the ’60s and ’70s, the study of British royals was seen as elitist, trivial, even pointless. Today, however, royal studies are flourishing... more »


Best sellers were once written by authors like Mary McCarthy and J.D. Salinger. Now they’re written by those like James Patterson. What changed?... more »


Zelig with a paintbrush. Edward Burra was in Paris with Josephine Baker, in Mexico with Malcolm Lowry, and in Spain just before its civil war... more »


In 1781 a semicolon appeared once every 90 words. Today it shows up once every 390 words. Is this progress?... more »


What’s discussed at the Dull Men’s Club? Windshield wipers, coat hangers, and mailboxes, among other banalities... more »


Get published for $20, co-author with a Nobel Prize-winner for $700: With academic paper mills, anything seems possible — for a fee... more »


The fact checker's improvised dance: Intuition, calculation, and the seeking of truth... more »


Patricia Highsmith asked one question when hiring an assistant: “Do you like Hemingway?” “No” was the only permitted response... more »


Paleoanthropology, a notoriously cutthroat discipline, attracts "the most psychotic" scientists. Even so, the femur dispute stands out... more »


The end of Hollywood. The movie business has moved to cities like Albuquerque and Atlanta. Even films set in L.A. are now shot elsewhere... more »


What makes Thomas Mann’s liberal cosmopolitanism so compelling is that, temperamentally and philosophically, he remained a conservative... more »


There’s no gay writer whose career Edmund White didn't influence, “even if they don’t know it: He made all of us possible”... more »


Is it a good idea to posthumously publish someone's private notes from psychiatry sessions? What if they were written by Joan Didion?... more »


AI will free both writers and readers from the authoritarian control and influence of what we now call “the author”... more »


“Trust the experts.” But many people would sooner accept ignorance than acknowledge an epistemic superior... more »


Old Tom Parr was said to have married at 80, committed adultery at 105, and died at 152. His life helped kick off the longevity business... more »


Is Dana Gioia a privileged Boomer hectoring us about the dying of the light? Or a prescient critic with a stark warning of decline?... more »


Can sexy elves, hot dragon-riders, and fornicating faeries save publishing? Romantasy now generates 20 million sales a year... more »


Among the Amis diehards. How to celebrate one of the last great literary celebrities? Throw a party for Martin... more »


“We like to see ourselves as the Robin Hood of talent. Robin Hood took away the money from the rich; we take away the talent”... more »


What happens when an entire culture gives up on the struggle to funnel meaning into language? We're starting to find out... more »


"Being an activist has become the artist’s and intellectual’s self-celebratory vocation," says Edward Rothstein. "What does this mean for museums?"... more »


Alasdair MacIntyre on dead antiquarianism: “History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation”... more »


How do freelance writers make ends meet? By compiling news of the horse racing industry and writing werewolf erotica... more »


"Much of social science research is of poor quality, and sorting the trustworthy work from bad work is difficult, costly, and time-consuming"... more »


"The barbarians are at the gates and the crown jewels of our civilization are at risk." Glenn Loury on the effort to dictate what happens in the university... more »


An armchair traveler par excellence, the greatest early-modern historian of Ottoman Greece never left his native Germany... more »


New Books

The Salt Path is the latest memoir with an author accused of fabrication or embellishment. Why does it keep happening?... more »


“Novels are better than television, but the surest way to make money from novels is to write with television in mind”... more »


Born into a Mormon family in Utah, the pioneering lesbian poet May Swenson found her footing in Greenwich Village... more »


A “trance evangelist,” an Indian guru, Andrew Jackson, Oprah — in America, charisma takes on many forms... more »


Paradise Lost was not acclaimed by its first readers. Then came John Dryden, who popularized and distorted Milton's masterpiece... more »


Bocaccio, a relentlessly autobiographical author, put his fickleness and neuroticism on display in his work... more »


Have you heard about the classicist who wants to do away with classics? Meet Walter Scheidel... more »


Plato has been pressed into service as the avatar of an intellectual tradition so often that it's easy to forget he was a person... more »


William F. Buckley Jr. embodied conservatism in America. Yet he had trouble defining what it is or ought to be... more »


At Random House, Toni Morrison was an exacting editor. She turned her authors’ talent, and her own, into cultural and literary power... more »


Was Virginia Woolf a depressed recluse? Or a sociable type who enjoyed intimate dinner parties? A new collection of letters suggests the latter... more »


Hubris and design thinking: The history of design is full of utopian projects that failed to make a difference... more »


Steven Shapin: “The duty of genius may be total dedication to solving scientific puzzles, but the price of genius will be paid by other people”... more »


Those in Gen Z are having less sex, and when they do have it, they are doing so in arcane arrangements. Is that a problem?... more »


Technology elevates efficiency over friction and seamlessness over inconvenience. Is that a bad thing?... more »


In America, has the backlash against Marxism been more influential than the theory itself? ... more »


Tom Crewe on the “ridiculous, sententious” writing of Ocean Vuong: “It was one of the worst ordeals of my reading life”... more »


Thomas Mallon has mastered the bitchy aperçu and brisk, summarizing detail. In short, he's an ideal diarist... more »


Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker seek to parochialize the human, showing that our activities may just be a cosmic sideshow... more »


An architect’s eccentric residential design, a manifesto house, is a rare instance of an artist putting polemic into practice... more »


The Divine Comedy, repeatedly rescued from obscurity, has long perched awkwardly between canonical reverence and cultural neglect... more »


Analytic philosophy offers the fantasy of free inquiry, but really just leans on “common sense” to justify the status quo — or so charge its critics... more »


In 1959, Richard Ellmann published a biography of James Joyce. The genre would never be the same ... more »


To the ancients, revolution was a perversion. To French philosophes, it marked human progress. How did that change in meaning come about? ... more »


The 7,000 languages spoken in the world today can be divided into 140 families. The languages most of us speak belong to just five... more »


How do we prove something is true? Tools like “statistical significance” can introduce arbitrariness to the establishment of facts... more »


Literary theory’s method wars are a bleakly irrelevant sideshow, a panic over living-room decor while the house burns... more »


Is beauty more powerful than argument? Robert Gooding-Williams believes it’s powerful enough to refute racism... more »


"Flaming and undisciplined genius." The uneasy yet fecund sibling rivalry of Gwen and Augustus John... more »


Robert Crumb was born into a dysfunctional family beset by alcoholism, abuse, and incest. Comics saved him... more »


The many Machiavellis. To Rousseau, he was a republican; to Carl Schmitt, a realist; to Gramsci, a guide for revolutionaries... more »


The liberal university is collapsing because liberalism as America's governing consensus is collapsing. David Rieff explains... more »


“Americans are thinking about Marx to a degree not matched since the 1960s, or perhaps even the 1930s”... more »


An existentialist before the label existed, Blaise Pascal regarded humanity as simultaneously great and wretched, noble and despicable... more »


What is art for? It's a way to explore feeling without creating “inescapable consequences,” says Brian Eno... more »


Artists don't need to declare their beliefs to use religious symbols, rich in meaning as they are. But we want them to be saying something... more »


What would it take for 21st-century humans to learn once again how to see the cosmos as alive?... more »


To Thomas Mann, Goethe was the “representative of the bourgeois age.” But he was less representative than prophetic... more »


Christopher Hill is the scholar who brought history from below to the Oxford high table... more »


Essays & Opinions

Mountains rise, species disappear — in the incomprehensible vastness of time we encounter the geological sublime... more »


Engagement with art and literature is a way of turning toward the world, towards reality, even in a state of captivity or desolation... more »


The science of consciousness has stagnated around two opposing approaches: physicalism and idealism. There’s another way... more »


Geoff Dyer has been described as an “essayist,” “comic writer,” “humorist,” and worst of all, “travel writer.” How dare they, he asks... more »


For Kurt Vonnegut, survival was a kind of "cosmic joke, with death being the setup and life being the punch line"... more »


Only mediocrities adhere to rules of writing, so make your prose purple — the purpler the better... more »


The geopolitical stakes of the race for AI dominance prompt a thorny question: Can we preserve both our humanity and our security?... more »


Why do writers write? For pleasure, meaning, money, fame – and for no reason at all. Lydia Davis explains... more »


The mystery of Sylvia Plath is that she was simply ordinary right up to the point that she became extraordinary... more »


Humans have long mistaken fluency for presence. Now, with the rise of hyper-fluent AI, our notions of identity will be tested... more »


The doubt disorder. At the 28th Annual OCD Conference, Andrew Kay asks: What is OCD, and where does it come from?... more »


“Offense has become so large and so accepted a part of our response to art that it can sometimes seem we’ve endowed it with unimpeachable authority”... more »


For influential 20th-century anthropologists, religion could not be reduced to its social function or explained away by other metadiscourses... more »


Geoff Dyer: “The humor in my later books is sometimes very adolescent, which strikes me as a good sign — immaturing with age”... more »


“Violence follows Harry Crews around like an oversized lapdog, eager to spring upon him with bone-crunching love”... more »


You won’t look to ChatGPT as a role model for the life of the mind, but A.I. has readerly strengths that lie precisely in its impersonality... more »


Politicians love to mock seemingly useless studies of shrimp treadmills and gecko mechanics — but silly science plays a vital role... more »


James Schuyler, whose poems exuded calm, was prone to anxiety attacks, nervous breakdowns, morbid depressions, and manic episodes... more »


Geniuses behaving badly is a historical commonplace.  Indeed, it's enough to wonder if the label is a license to misbehave... more »


The impossible genre. Biography incorporates every style and school. We categorize it as nonfiction, “but its facts ride upon a raft of speculation”... more »


“Giving out a prize for novels is a bit like a priest taking Sunday confession from the whole congregation and then giving out awards to the best ones”... more »


From 1770 to 1790, a new view of liberty ascended to a position of ideological dominance. Why?... more »


Sandra Cisneros: “Every woman writer could use a room of her own, as Virginia Woolf wrote. But what really serves a woman, in my opinion, is a house”... more »


Yes, much about poetry gets lost in translation. But to conclude that poetry is therefore untranslatable is to misrepresent both poetry and translation... more »


Critics take Shulamith Firestone’s schizophrenia to reveal some truth about feminism, or family tragedy, or psychiatry. That’s nonsense... more »


Jordan Peterson somehow manages to be both a sententious reactionary and a purveyor of postmodern gobbledygook... more »


What made the Enlightenment extraordinary? Not just a set of ideas or what was said but also how it was said... more »


“Avoid adverbs” is advice commonly encountered by writers. It's also bad advice. By all means, use adverbs – carefully, not exuberantly... more »


Modern aesthetics encouraged a warm relationship between an artwork and its viewer. What happens to art in an age of enmity?... more »


John Jeremiah Sullivan on the Mark Twain revival: “How does one revive what is ever-present and oppressively urgent?”... more »


The missive mania of Seamus Heaney. He once wrote 14 letters during one flight, and routinely wrote 15 per day... more »


Some of Edward Said’s ideas have become canonical. Others are as contentious today as they were 30 years ago... more »


Huge sums of money are being invested in life-extension research. Success would be a disaster, warns Francis Fukuyama ... more »


Criticism without flair is dull. Criticism without sensibility is useless. Henry James knew this well... more »


Was Martin Amis, famous for his love of style and idolized for his own, in fact guilty of crimes against it?... more »


Rarer than great diarists are great critics. Rarer still are those who write both great novels and great criticism, such as Virginia Woolf... more »


"Questions of who or what is in The New Yorker or The Paris Review or who has a deal with Knopf and why are irrelevant and uninteresting"... more »


Seen by reporters as a factory churning out bland 800-word “takes,” the New York Times opinion section has become a force... more »


Only total, all-consuming dedication will give you a happy, healthy child — and other myths of mothering... more »


“Gone are the days when an insular clique of critics had the ability to make or break artists’ careers — and good riddance”... more »


Poets and parties. Asked at a soiree if he was having fun, T.S. Eliot replied, “Yes, if you see the essential horror of it all”... more »


Demonology. Look back through history, and mankind’s demons all sort of appear the same. Why is that?... more »


“Never leave me alone with poets,” and other demands from the few men who've edited The New Yorker ... more »


How to hop trains. A comprehensive guide exists, but you have to look for it in the right places... more »


“How can we renew the potential of the university to serve as a space that shelters criticism and literary judgment and aesthetic education?”... more »


“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate”... more »


The case for mortality often argues that living forever – the boredom! – is worse than certain death. Nonsense, says Kieran Setiya... more »


The history of the CIA. Agents ate with Mobutu, wrote radio jingles for anti-Communist politicians, and bought cars for Mexican ministers’ girlfriends... more »


Students know that relying on AI is bad for them, but they can’t stop using it. Shortcuts are easy to rationalize... more »


Andrea Long Chu's second thoughts: “The strategy of couching the most challenging claims in the language of outlandish provocation appears dubious to me now”... more »


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