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Jan. 19, 2024

Articles of Note

There are more dialects of American English than you might expect, including seven in New Orleans alone... more »


New Books

Lavinia Greenlaw’s essays are curatorial and taxonomic. How much of the world do we know merely by seeing it?... more »


Essays & Opinions

What is it like to be an animal? The question has driven philosophical treatises — as well as the donning of a $23,000 human-sized wolf suit... more »


Jan. 18, 2024

Articles of Note

Language, meaning, and perception. An old debate over linguistic relativity has new implications ... more »


New Books

Keats was in a bind. He was penniless, homeless, and tubercular. No one would accompany him to the warm climate he needed... more »


Essays & Opinions

The Algorithm: Not since the discovery of the libido or the printing press has something loomed so large... more »


Jan. 17, 2024

Articles of Note

Ever wondered why every coffee shop looks the same? They are beholden to sad, algorithmically-driven design trends... more »


New Books

All hail Guy Davenport, who praised androgyny in the National Review and translated the Greeks as he munched fried bologna... more »


Essays & Opinions

With major elections looming, a moral panic has swept the globe: social media empowers populism. Is there anything to that?... more »


Jan. 16, 2024

Articles of Note

Mansa Musa, a 14th-century West African monarch, possessed nearly half the gold known to exist in the Eastern Hemisphere... more »


New Books

To the extent that fatness is unfairly conflated with sickness, can a philosopher cure fatphobia? Kate Manne is trying ... more »


Essays & Opinions

What’s most difficult about Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is finding the time to read it. Ryan Ruby explains... more »


Jan. 15, 2024

Articles of Note

A bruiser until the very end, Milton Friedman knew the value of adopting the role of the underdog... more »


New Books

"Some books are so utterly bad that the case against them can be made based on almost any excerpt.” Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk is one of those books... more »


Essays & Opinions

The evolution of celebrity analysis: Madonna-ology was based on critical theory, Taylor Swift studies is concerned with teaching skills... more »


Jan. 12, 2024

Articles of Note

The most surprising thing about a writing group at the CIA? No one is working on a spy novel... more »


New Books

Free will is an illusion, argues much of 21st-century science. The neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell begs to differ... more »


Essays & Opinions

Flaubert’s solitude. In 1851, he asked rhetorically: “Am I really to have a goal other than Art itself?”... more »


Jan. 11, 2024

Articles of Note

The classical-music establishment’s challenge: How to foster the passionate devotion that allows an art form to survive... more »


New Books

The conglomeration of publishing explains some of our literary culture. But does it really explain all of it?... more »


Essays & Opinions

Once you enter Guy Davenport’s labyrinth of learning and imagination, you never get out. John Jeremiah Sullivan explains... more »


Jan. 10, 2024

Articles of Note

Our punctuation, ourselves. What are we really talking about when we talk about exclamation points? ... more »


New Books

Virginia Woolf likened her to a “giant cucumber” with “the freakishness of an elf” — but does Margaret Cavendish deserve a closer look?... more »


Essays & Opinions

“No one can really believe in an apology until after it happens,” says Agnes Callard. “That’s the telltale mark of a miracle”... more »


Jan. 9, 2024

Articles of Note

The first influencer, Beau Brummell, exuded “calculated nonchalance.” He was a harbinger of our celebrity culture... more »


New Books

Katherine Mansfield flirted with the Bloomsbury set at their parties — then plotted how to crush them... more »


Essays & Opinions

“Critique is not against reason; it is the very practice of reason.” Peter Gordon lays to rest some misconceptions of critical theory... more »


Jan. 8, 2024

Articles of Note

Academic dishonesty, improper attribution, citational errors — why are professors so wary of invoking “plagiarism” in the case of Claudine Gay?... more »


New Books

“Although the concept of equality may seem intuitive, it is surprisingly difficult to pin down with any precision”... more »


Essays & Opinions

Tom Wolfe was less an inventive journalist or mediocre novelist − though he was both – than a grand theorist of American life... more »


Jan. 5, 2024

Articles of Note

Does the afterlife exist? Yes, thought Kurt Gödel. Where else could humans fulfill their potential?... more »


New Books

Can a poet with no experience of combat or trenches capture the reality of a frontline soldier in WWI?... more »


Essays & Opinions

Planning to give up alcohol, smoking, or chocolate? Behind such self-sacrifice lies the despair of just wanting to give up... more »


Jan. 4, 2024

Articles of Note

The medical-mystery genre has a familiar arc, usually punctuated by a revelatory “aha” moment. Not for Tom Scocca... more »


New Books

Ostriches beheaded, horses made into consuls. Embellishing the scandalous tales of Roman Emperors doesn’t make them useless... more »


Essays & Opinions

Samuel Moyn laments liberalism’s lack of an aspiration to perfection. But that never was a liberal tenet, and shouldn’t be... more »


Jan. 3, 2024

Articles of Note

The first book of photography? British Algae, a binding of hundreds of cyanotypes compiled by an amateur botanist... more »


New Books

Jill Lepore: “The internet is an astonishing product of human ingenuity and an incredible archive. But … it has not realized the promise of democratization”... more »


Essays & Opinions

Amid calls to “decolonize” everything from hipsters to universities, one wonders: Where did this jargonized swagger originate?... more »


Jan. 2, 2024

Articles of Note

Confessions of a bookseller. The essential problem with how we talk about the job – and it is a job – is preciosity... more »


New Books

The way to get ahead in economics, Robert Solow quipped, is to provide a “brilliant argu­ment in favor of an absurd conclusion.” Has anything changed?... more »


Essays & Opinions

“The abandonment of ornament has levied a heavy toll on the practice of architecture, tantamount to misplacing a crucial instrument of one’s toolbox”... more »


Jan. 1, 2024

Articles of Note

The next frontier in live musical performance? Zero gravity. What would it sound like to break the music-making conventions of earth?... more »


New Books

Wokeness, anti-wokeness, and the enduring allure of victim status. Geoff Shullenberger on why identity politics isn’t going anywhere... more »


Essays & Opinions

We never tire of trying to live better lives. For better results, consult better thinkers. Start with John Stuart Mill... more »


Dec. 29, 2023

Articles of Note

David Brooks on the golden age of nonfiction and his selections for this year’s Sidney Awards... more »


New Books

Christian Wiman’s religious vision. God is more than us, more than we can ever know, and in that unknowing we find freedom... more »


Essays & Opinions

The chief risk facing elite higher education isn’t financial, but that its authority will grow brittle and its appeal sectarian... more »


Dec. 28, 2023

Articles of Note

Nostalgia can be spun out of the flimsiest of cultural phenomena. Exhibit A: The “new” “last” Beatles’ single... more »


New Books

Allen Ginsberg seems to have kept everything, even letters to the American Nazi Party. “I heard you want to kill me, can we meet and discuss it?!?”... more »


Essays & Opinions

We are witnessing a highly fractious workplace dispute at the heart of the American culture industry. Andrea Long Chu explains... more »


Dec. 27, 2023

Articles of Note

A writer is a creature of solitude, we’re told. Hogwash! Writing is the most gregarious of the arts... more »


New Books

America’s founding philosopher? John Locke is central to the nation’s political thought, however historically dubious his place is... more »


Essays & Opinions

The two Chomskys. How did the political activist reconcile a lifetime spent in close proximity to the US military?... more »


Dec. 26, 2023

Articles of Note

Ideas of the afterlife. In the Western tradition, eternal fate is connected to one's earthly actions. Not so for the ancient Egyptians... more »


New Books

The Russian Revolution changed the lives of a third of humanity for better or for worse. Robert Service is its indefatigable chronicler... more »


Essays & Opinions

Pissarro’s Jewishness has typically been treated by biographers as a minor matter. That is a mistake... more »


Dec. 25, 2023

Articles of Note

“Why, in the last 10 years, have elite colleges in particular become sites of such relentless ideological confrontation?”... more »


New Books

Sly Stone and the ever expanding influence – funk, fusion, new wave, pop – of one of the world’s most notoriously unproductive people... more »


Essays & Opinions

What turns serious people into comedic figures? For some, it’s the rigidity of their thinking. Consider Christopher Hitchens... more »


Dec. 22, 2023

Articles of Note

Was Milton Friedman the “last conservative,” or a founding radical of the contemporary age?... more »


New Books

During the Renaissance, beauty secrets were democratized, and women strove to become works of art... more »


Essays & Opinions

A year into ChatGPT, what’s the verdict? AI is simultaneously impressive and pretty dumb... more »




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Articles of Note

There are more dialects of American English than you might expect, including seven in New Orleans alone... more »


Language, meaning, and perception. An old debate over linguistic relativity has new implications ... more »


Ever wondered why every coffee shop looks the same? They are beholden to sad, algorithmically-driven design trends... more »


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

Mansa Musa, a 14th-century West African monarch, possessed nearly half the gold known to exist in the Eastern Hemisphere... more »


A bruiser until the very end, Milton Friedman knew the value of adopting the role of the underdog... more »


The most surprising thing about a writing group at the CIA? No one is working on a spy novel... more »


The classical-music establishment’s challenge: How to foster the passionate devotion that allows an art form to survive... more »


Our punctuation, ourselves. What are we really talking about when we talk about exclamation points? ... more »


The first influencer, Beau Brummell, exuded “calculated nonchalance.” He was a harbinger of our celebrity culture... more »


Academic dishonesty, improper attribution, citational errors — why are professors so wary of invoking “plagiarism” in the case of Claudine Gay?... more »


Does the afterlife exist? Yes, thought Kurt Gödel. Where else could humans fulfill their potential?... more »


The medical-mystery genre has a familiar arc, usually punctuated by a revelatory “aha” moment. Not for Tom Scocca... more »


The first book of photography? British Algae, a binding of hundreds of cyanotypes compiled by an amateur botanist... more »


Confessions of a bookseller. The essential problem with how we talk about the job – and it is a job – is preciosity... more »


The next frontier in live musical performance? Zero gravity. What would it sound like to break the music-making conventions of earth?... more »


David Brooks on the golden age of nonfiction and his selections for this year’s Sidney Awards... more »


Nostalgia can be spun out of the flimsiest of cultural phenomena. Exhibit A: The “new” “last” Beatles’ single... more »


A writer is a creature of solitude, we’re told. Hogwash! Writing is the most gregarious of the arts... more »


Ideas of the afterlife. In the Western tradition, eternal fate is connected to one's earthly actions. Not so for the ancient Egyptians... more »


“Why, in the last 10 years, have elite colleges in particular become sites of such relentless ideological confrontation?”... more »


Was Milton Friedman the “last conservative,” or a founding radical of the contemporary age?... more »


It’s easy to moralize about capitalism, and especially about the thrill of consumerism. For that, read Zola... more »


How did Harvard Medical School become ensnared in the underground market in human body parts?... more »


What distinguishes war from genocide? It’s an especially fraught question these days, one that Omer Bartov takes head-on... more »


A scholar who publishes a paper every five days? The rise of the extremely productive researcher... more »


The New York Times has long been accused of having a liberal bias. The real problem, says James Bennet, is its illiberalism... more »


Melrose Place was a typically anodyne mid-'90s primetime soap opera. How did it get mixed up with a radical artists collective?... more »


Want to see genre bending book-cover design? Don’t look in a bookstore. Look at designs that got killed... more »


In the Victorian era, friendship was crucial. And no one was more essential to Charles Dickens than Wilkie Collins... more »


All culture was microculture, until it was eclipsed by monoculture. Now microculture is on the rise again... more »


The heart of the task for any poet, according to Czeslaw Milosz, is bearing what is borne by others... more »


Betty Friedan, the “iron mask of machismo,” the feminine mystique, and how far we have – and have not – come... more »


In June 1968, a who’s who of poets convened on Long Island. They ate lobster, drank vodka, and brawled... more »


John Gray: “If you think in what are called secular terms, you can’t really understand the world that we now live in”... more »


Karl Ove Knausgård, Dag Solstad, Jon Fosse — Norway has become a literary superpower... more »


Beware the sensitivity read. For some publishers words like “foreign,” “God,” “nerd,” and “freshman” are off limits... more »


In Central European spa towns rich in literary history, you can bathe in everything from beer to radon... more »


Moby-Dick had been out of print for decades when the author died. Since then, we’ve rediscovered the Melville we need... more »


Spare a thought for cliché-verre. Part printmaking, part photography, this 19th-century artistic medium never caught on... more »


Reassessing the work of Georg Lukács means expurgating Bolshevik themes and some long-outdated Marxist concepts. That’s asking a lot... more »


New Books

Lavinia Greenlaw’s essays are curatorial and taxonomic. How much of the world do we know merely by seeing it?... more »


Keats was in a bind. He was penniless, homeless, and tubercular. No one would accompany him to the warm climate he needed... more »


All hail Guy Davenport, who praised androgyny in the National Review and translated the Greeks as he munched fried bologna... more »


To the extent that fatness is unfairly conflated with sickness, can a philosopher cure fatphobia? Kate Manne is trying ... more »


"Some books are so utterly bad that the case against them can be made based on almost any excerpt.” Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk is one of those books... more »


Free will is an illusion, argues much of 21st-century science. The neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell begs to differ... more »


The conglomeration of publishing explains some of our literary culture. But does it really explain all of it?... more »


Virginia Woolf likened her to a “giant cucumber” with “the freakishness of an elf” — but does Margaret Cavendish deserve a closer look?... more »


Katherine Mansfield flirted with the Bloomsbury set at their parties — then plotted how to crush them... more »


“Although the concept of equality may seem intuitive, it is surprisingly difficult to pin down with any precision”... more »


Can a poet with no experience of combat or trenches capture the reality of a frontline soldier in WWI?... more »


Ostriches beheaded, horses made into consuls. Embellishing the scandalous tales of Roman Emperors doesn’t make them useless... more »


Jill Lepore: “The internet is an astonishing product of human ingenuity and an incredible archive. But … it has not realized the promise of democratization”... more »


The way to get ahead in economics, Robert Solow quipped, is to provide a “brilliant argu­ment in favor of an absurd conclusion.” Has anything changed?... more »


Wokeness, anti-wokeness, and the enduring allure of victim status. Geoff Shullenberger on why identity politics isn’t going anywhere... more »


Christian Wiman’s religious vision. God is more than us, more than we can ever know, and in that unknowing we find freedom... more »


Allen Ginsberg seems to have kept everything, even letters to the American Nazi Party. “I heard you want to kill me, can we meet and discuss it?!?”... more »


America’s founding philosopher? John Locke is central to the nation’s political thought, however historically dubious his place is... more »


The Russian Revolution changed the lives of a third of humanity for better or for worse. Robert Service is its indefatigable chronicler... more »


Sly Stone and the ever expanding influence – funk, fusion, new wave, pop – of one of the world’s most notoriously unproductive people... more »


During the Renaissance, beauty secrets were democratized, and women strove to become works of art... more »


Despair is painful, miserable, to be avoided. But as Kirkegaard understood, it is also essential... more »


Can you determine if a Warhol is an authentic Warhol? Depends on whom you ask... more »


Goo, gunk, gloop, slime. Whatever you call it, it is as fundamental to living beings as oxygen and sunlight... more »


Pessimistic fatalist that he is, John Gray sees new Leviathans, dangerous Leviathans on the march... more »


Willa Cather, who loathed biographers and critics, placed every trap, pitfall, and barrier in their path... more »


Notebooks by any name – rapiaria, zibaldoni, memoriali, giornali – represent a history of thinking on paper... more »


Falsehoods proliferate online because the history of human culture is a history of fake things... more »


The history of Marxism is written as either triumph or tragedy. Both approaches prevent an honest reckoning... more »


James Whistler wasn’t one to turn the other cheek. When John Ruskin panned his painting, Whistler sued... more »


The topic of how one’s life connects to one’s aesthetic judgments is a fraught one. Consider Sasha Frere-Jones... more »


“We can understand a culture by what it calls monstrous; the monster stands for everything a society attempts to cast out”... more »


Why did Janet Malcolm, late in life, confess to a prolonged extramarital affair with her New Yorker editor, decades after the fact?... more »


“As the centuries passed, what men of erudition had once considered ‘magic’ increasingly began to look like ‘technology’”... more »


Derek Parfit believed we should live more impersonally. By ignoring his friends and family, he lived up — or, rather, down — to this principle... more »


In 1966, Philip Rieff labeled and lambasted “therapeutic culture.” It is ever more apparent he was on to something... more »


How four women – Arendt, de Beauvoir, Rand, Weil – concluded that philosophy had to be utterly reimagined... more »


Schoenberg, stigmatization. The argument that classical music took a wrong turn in the middle of the 20th century is downright wrong... more »


The chapter. It dates to 13th-century narrative units in the Gospels, before the separation of sentences and even of words... more »


Essays & Opinions

What is it like to be an animal? The question has driven philosophical treatises — as well as the donning of a $23,000 human-sized wolf suit... more »


The Algorithm: Not since the discovery of the libido or the printing press has something loomed so large... more »


With major elections looming, a moral panic has swept the globe: social media empowers populism. Is there anything to that?... more »


What’s most difficult about Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is finding the time to read it. Ryan Ruby explains... more »


The evolution of celebrity analysis: Madonna-ology was based on critical theory, Taylor Swift studies is concerned with teaching skills... more »


Flaubert’s solitude. In 1851, he asked rhetorically: “Am I really to have a goal other than Art itself?”... more »


Once you enter Guy Davenport’s labyrinth of learning and imagination, you never get out. John Jeremiah Sullivan explains... more »


“No one can really believe in an apology until after it happens,” says Agnes Callard. “That’s the telltale mark of a miracle”... more »


“Critique is not against reason; it is the very practice of reason.” Peter Gordon lays to rest some misconceptions of critical theory... more »


Tom Wolfe was less an inventive journalist or mediocre novelist − though he was both – than a grand theorist of American life... more »


Planning to give up alcohol, smoking, or chocolate? Behind such self-sacrifice lies the despair of just wanting to give up... more »


Samuel Moyn laments liberalism’s lack of an aspiration to perfection. But that never was a liberal tenet, and shouldn’t be... more »


Amid calls to “decolonize” everything from hipsters to universities, one wonders: Where did this jargonized swagger originate?... more »


“The abandonment of ornament has levied a heavy toll on the practice of architecture, tantamount to misplacing a crucial instrument of one’s toolbox”... more »


We never tire of trying to live better lives. For better results, consult better thinkers. Start with John Stuart Mill... more »


The chief risk facing elite higher education isn’t financial, but that its authority will grow brittle and its appeal sectarian... more »


We are witnessing a highly fractious workplace dispute at the heart of the American culture industry. Andrea Long Chu explains... more »


The two Chomskys. How did the political activist reconcile a lifetime spent in close proximity to the US military?... more »


Pissarro’s Jewishness has typically been treated by biographers as a minor matter. That is a mistake... more »


What turns serious people into comedic figures? For some, it’s the rigidity of their thinking. Consider Christopher Hitchens... more »


A year into ChatGPT, what’s the verdict? AI is simultaneously impressive and pretty dumb... more »


When Mala Chatterjee was most broken and vulnerable, only one thing could soothe and sustain her: Infinite Jest... more »


Tyler Austin Harper: “Humanists today need to reckon with the fact that the only thing our politicking is accomplishing is hastening our own demise”... more »


As a child, Kathryn Schulz heard rumors that she was related to the Polish novelist Bruno Schulz. Is it true?... more »


An open society is based upon the malleability of opinion. So what happens when persuasion is no longer possible?... more »


When a library's entire digital footprint is stolen by a ransomware gang, what remains? The British Library is finding out... more »


Moral clarity is rarely clear, and simplistic certitudes have no place at institutions of higher learning... more »


A great poet, such as Robert Frost, affords misreadings, "perhaps even welcomes them, and is misread anew by each successive generation”... more »


Philosophy and pseudonymity. Why do so many philosophers write under so many names? Consider Kierkegaard... more »


Humans have always wanted to become like Gods. Francis Bacon understood this desire better than most... more »


Flaubert was once described as a “martyr of literary style.” His letters reveal just how apt that assessment was... more »


The art world is full of grifters, fakers, thieves, and critics on the make. Monet knew instinctively how to play the game... more »


Critics' lives are deskbound, confined to their thoughts and other people’s art. What drives them to it?... more »


“Ideology,” a word coined during the French Revolution, was declared dead by Daniel Bell in 1960. Now ideologies are roaring back to life... more »


Objective measures are our most effective weapon against racism and sexism, says Steven Pinker: blind auditions, traffic cameras, SAT... more »


Are there objectively correct answers to the big philosophical questions? A meta-ethicist makes the case that there are... more »


“You’re not allowed to be whiter than him ... And you cannot wear a hat because that is his thing.” Patricia Lockwood meets the pope... more »


Susan Sontag and George Steiner could be extraordinarily ill-mannered. But their critical ardor remains infectious... more »


A best-selling philosophical text on Amazon is the decade-old dissertation of a writer best known as Bronze Age Pervert... more »


Rescuing Pushkin from commemoration and co-optation: He “deserves to be stripped of his official veneration to reveal the irreverent poet underneath”... more »


Censorship is a widespread problem among scientists. It’s most often driven by the scientists themselves... more »


Do animals need complex brains to experience consciousness? New work on scallops, jellyfish, and crabs suggests not... more »


When Gawker went girly and created a home for radical self-disclosure and all-abiding contempt. Moe Tkacik looks back... more »


My queue, myself. Ordering DVDs from Netflix served as a kind of biography of the various phases of my life... more »


Whether the conglomeration of the publishing industry has been good or bad is beside the point. Artists adapt... more »


George Packer: “In taking political action, writers and artists are likelier to betray than fulfill the demands of their vocation”... more »


The cultural position of aliens has changed radically. We can expect to hear a lot more about them in coming years... more »


No Christian saint described levitation in as much detail — or complained about it with as much vigor — as Saint Teresa of Avila... more »


Russell Kirk and the gothic cast of the conservative mind. What do his ghost stories reveal about his political outlook?... more »


The varieties of loneliness: We can feel isolated from strangers, from loved ones, even from ourselves... more »


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