Articles of Note

Can books kill? They seemed to do just that during the “great book scare” of the 1890s — a mass panic over diseases spread by libraries... more »


New Books

Klaus Fuchs was a brilliant, high-minded nuclear physicist. He was also history’s most dangerous spy... more »


Essays & Opinions

Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, was published in 1959 under the name of Philip Rieff. For decades Susan Sontag claimed she wrote “every single word”... more »