Articles of Note

Arendt biographer Elzbieta Ettinger saw herself in her subject. Each fled the Nazis, was cut off from her native culture, and fell for a famous professor... more »

New Books

What do we talk about when we talk about literature? Ourselves, mostly. We miss the qualities that make a novel a novel. Terry Eagleton offers a remedy... more »

Essays & Opinions

Our glittering age of technologism and scientism. Leon Wieseltier has heard the news ? Jane Austen was a game theorist, Proust a neuroscientist ? and he's not impressed... more »