Articles of Note

The cult of cute. Hello Kitty, ET, Jeff Koons’s “Balloon Dog” — the power of this aesthetic is in its uncanny subversion of boundaries... more »


New Books

To love one’s country, one must acknowledge its past. In America, that means unpacking false universalism and examining its history of ideas... more »


Essays & Opinions

As Margaret Atwood has said, “every utopia contains a little dystopia” — something certainly true of Victorian fiction’s all-female paradises... more »