Articles of Note

An academic turf and budget battle is under way between science and the humanities. Are you for porous borders or a two-state solution?... more »

New Books

Malcolm Gladwell has a gift for telling stories ? stories that mislead, stories that lack evidence and logic, stories that offer no real insight... more »

Essays & Opinions

Death and literature. Great art is suffused with a sense of the transitory, the perishable, the mortal. Narrative is an attempt to delay the inevitable... more »