The Travesty of Modern Architecture, and More

The concrete block is inescapable.

The inescapable concrete block. Modern architecture is a travesty — and yet we are stuck with it ... more »

Beckett, Nabokov, and Conrad abandoned their native languages to write in another. Jhumpa Lahiri is the latest to embark on that journey ... more »

As Cass Sunstein's books get slighter, they're published more frequently. He is the James Patterson o…