Articles of Note

The most productive and worst botanist in history. Constantine Rafinesque described 6,000 “new” plant species. Many were well-known weeds... more »


New Books

Saul Bellow's youthful Trotskyism had, by the mid-‘60s, given way to liberalism. Then he wrote the first neoconservative novel, Mr. Sammler’s Planet... more »


Essays & Opinions

Who would have thought that n+1, largely founded by men, would in time become the world’s least boring journal of feminist theory?... more »