Victorian Technoscience, and More

Flip open the last issue of Bookforum. This is not a dying magazine. So why is it closing? ... more »

For the Victorians, progress was “natural and built into the order of things.” The “technoscience” they promoted is with us still... more »

Justin E.H. Smith, well into midlife, has had his last swallow of alcohol. That particular search for transcendence…