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The Melville We Need, and More
Moby-Dick had been out of print for decades when Melville died.
The History of the Chapter, and More
It dates to 13th-century narrative units in the Gospels, before the separation of sentences and even of words.
Reassessing Georg Lukács, and More
Expurgate Bolshevik themes and some long-outdated Marxist concepts, for starters.
Madeline Kripke’s Dictionaries, and More
The jargon of 17th-century London, the slang of 1960s teens — if you can imagine it, it’s in Madeline Kripke’s dictionary collection.
The Liberal’s Dilemma, and More
Are they suffering from their own success, or from the fact that liberalism has never been tried?
The Philip Roth Festival, and More
Three days of “Rothdom” — a Newark festival dedicated to Philip Roth — spur a thought: His creative, licentious force is best consumed alone... more »…
Psychedelics and Psychosis, and More
In the 1960s, scientists believed in a connection between psychedelics and psychosis. Is there anything to that?
Taylor Lorenz, George Packer, and More
Beginning in the 13th century, a new paradigm of measurement and mathematics built the modern world... more » “To be a writer today is to make yourself…
The Cultural Position of Aliens, and More
Stanley Fish on teaching at Florida’s newly controversial New College: “Virtue is not the business of the academy”... more » Aristotle condemned the…
Shakespeare’s First Folio, and More
Its initial print run was 750. Today 233 copies survive, all of them unique.
Dwight Garner, Russell Kirk, and More
“Stalin’s one and only culinary extravagance in those days was a bathtub full of pickled gherkins”... more » Dwight Garner cannot read without eating…
AI, Roman Emperors, and More
Roman emperors were overworked bureaucrats tasked with theatrical displays of strength.
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