Punchline Aesthetics, Walter Benjamin, and More

Torn between the esoteric Judaism of Scholem and the materialism of Brecht, Walter Benjamin was a Marxist awaiting the Messiah  ... more »

The sins of G.K. Chesterton. He was convivial, generous, sharply intelligent, and unforgivably anti-Semitic... more »

In the fiction of both Ben Lerner and Sheila Heti, artists fall comically flat. But such “punchline …