Aug. 30, 2024 | Does a paleontological site in North Dakota contain evidence of one of the most dramatic events in the history of the planet?... more »
Aug. 29, 2024 | Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are unlikely titans of Russian literature. Not everyone is pleased... more »
Aug. 28, 2024 | People have always been anxious about their health. But their anxiety reflects the preoccupations and peculiarities of each era... more »
Aug. 27, 2024 | “Graffti inserts itself like the blade of a knife between creation and destruction, between publicity and furtiveness, between word and image”... more »
Aug. 26, 2024 | Battles over money. Allegations of racism. A chair ousted. When a college English department self-destructs... more »
Aug. 23, 2024 | Chomsky was in his teens when he read Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. It solidified his political convictions... more »
Aug. 22, 2024 | Nazis burned books. But they also sold them, including at a bookstore in Los Angeles... more »
Aug. 21, 2024 | The case against having children. "Maybe you’re very sincere about your concerns about a human future. But you’re contradicting yourself"... more »
Aug. 20, 2024 | Inside the Orwell archive. What crucial discoveries lurk in a warehouse of rusty filing cabinets?... more »
Aug. 19, 2024 | Tom Wolfe was known for his style. But it was his worldview that made him. David Brooks explains... more »
Aug. 16, 2024 | Unlocking the Voynich Manuscript’s secrets. Does the medieval document have meaning? Or is it artful nonsense?... more »
Aug. 15, 2024 | Are snails sentient? We need a theory that bridges neurobiology and consciousness. Unfortunately, we have 22... more »
Aug. 14, 2024 | For Vermeer, color conveyed meaning. But are the colors we see today the colors he intended to convey?... more »
Aug. 13, 2024 | The rise and fall of a media empire. Why National Geographic is a cautionary tale for magazines... more »
Aug. 12, 2024 | Paul Bloom on strangling cats, raising kids, and why psychologists aren’t especially savvy about human behavior... more »
Aug. 9, 2024 | Liberalism is everywhere under attack. Is that because of its failures? Or its failures of nerve?... more »
Aug. 8, 2024 | “AI won’t destroy music — but it can radically shift who is making it, what we hear, and why we create it in the first place”... more »
Aug. 7, 2024 | “I want to educate you,” says Glenn Loury. “I don't want to placate you. I'm not here to make you feel better”... more »
Aug. 6, 2024 | James Baldwin recast arguments not as contests to be won but rather as questions to be reframed. Colm Tóibín explains... more »
Aug. 5, 2024 | Plants and philosophy. On the agency and intelligence of a tree... more »
Aug. 2, 2024 | Norman Mailer was not a “bull or a lion or a thunderbolt. He was just, very often, an enormous and unrelenting jerk”... more »
Aug. 1, 2024 | What was it in 1550s England that led to the rise of a new behavior, a new way of thinking? Keeping a diary ... more »
July 31, 2024 | Ninety percent of songs are about love. Why do critics focus on the other 10 percent? Out of shame, mostly. Ted Gioia explains... more »
July 30, 2024 | Lewis Lapham, the elegant and mischievous, patrician and populist editor who reinvented Harper’s, is dead. He was 89... NYTimes... Christian Lorentzen... Kelly Burdick... Nic Rowan... Lapham's Quarterly... more »
July 29, 2024 | E.E. Cummings’s stylistic quirks and preoccupations long ago fell out of favor. What can be gleaned from revisiting his first book?... more »