Articles of Note

Artificial intelligence is poised to crack interspecies communication — or is it? As one dolphin researcher puts it, “You can’t just have a Skype conversation”   ... more »

New Books

Simone Weil was an idiosyncratic extremist who managed to alienate everyone. Yet it's difficult to find nothing compelling in her work... more »

Essays & Opinions

In a time of sanctimony literature, novelists and novels are stupefyingly smug and egregiously simplistic. Becca Rothfeld explains   ... more »