Articles of Note

The FBI's philosophy files. Ever suspicious, J. Edgar Hoover was especially suspicious of French existentialists. He kept his eye on Sartre and Camus... more »

New Books

After Franco. Spain is engaged in a history war: Score-settling has hijacked memory, and one man's truth is another's treason... more »

Essays & Opinions

For Simone de Beauvoir, it was a crushing weight. For Virginia Woolf, it meant feeling like the ?youngest person on the omnibus.' When artists age... more »