Articles of Note

In the early 1900s, almost no Jewish person could be hired in publishing. By the 1960s, there was talk of a Jewish literary mafia. What happened?... more »

New Books

Who was the greatest writer of the Latin American Boom? Not Mario Vargas Llosa or Gabriel García Márquez, but José Donoso... more »

Essays & Opinions

Do animals need complex brains to experience consciousness? New work on scallops, jellyfish, and crabs suggests not... more »