Essay Selling the Great 快色直播 June 01, 2026 There is some wordless knowledge in these books, some sense of integrity and some understanding of the universe, that is conveyed by exposing yourself to what Matthew Arnold called 鈥渢he best which has been thought and said鈥�. Read More
Essay From intensive to (over)invested June 01, 2026 Allison Daminger and Nina Bandelj discuss what parenting has become. Read More
Interview Kira Ganga Kieffer on Unvaccinated Under God May 28, 2026 Kira Ganga Kieffer shows that debates over vaccine safety and mandatory vaccination are about more than diseases or injections. They have been proxies for existential concerns about justice and morality. Kieffer argues that vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. should be understood as religious expression鈥攏ot as the product of scientific misinformation. Read More
Interview Laura B. McGrath on Middlemen May 22, 2026 Chronicling the story of literary agents in the United States from the 1950s to today, in Middlemen, Laura McGrath uncovers their critical role in the making of American literature. Read More
Interview Jennie Durant on Bitter Honey May 20, 2026 Jennie Durant takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the human and ecological cost of industrial farming for bees, beekeepers, and all of us who depend on them. Read More
Interview Chad M. Topaz on Unlocking Justice May 20, 2026 The American legal system does not offer equal justice to all; we can see obvious racial disparities in sentencing, policing, and incarceration. In Unlocking Justice, Chad Topaz offers a concrete way forward, demonstrating how a candid dialogue between social justice and data science can empower communities, spark informed debate, and inspire advocacy. Read More
Essay When folk horror goes beautiful: You Won鈥檛 Be Alone (2022) May 18, 2026 This is a folk horror witch film about severe, abject child abuse. And as we鈥檒l also see, it鈥檚 about resistance to that kind of abuse, and the desire to find meaning and beauty in life, even with the knowledge that horrific, monstrous evil exists. Read More
Essay The night humans learned to sleep together May 15, 2026 Humans became one of the most successful species on Earth while doing something especially odd: we appear to sleep less than we should. Like鈥 lot less. Read More
Essay Bones and All (2022), or, When Horror Goes Beautiful II May 14, 2026 Something must have been in the air in 2022. In the same year that You Won鈥檛 be Alone聽came keening gloriously out of Macedonia, Bones and All聽loped its achingly beautiful way out of Hollywood. Film essay by Eleanor Johnson, whose book Monstrous Bitch is forthcoming. Read More
Essay You can鈥檛 bowl with a chatbot May 12, 2026 Vehement negative reactions to people befriending, dating, or even marrying AI chatbots are everywhere. Why is that? Read More
Interview Steven Nadler on Spinoza, Atheist April 30, 2026 How could a person whose books are suffused with talk of God be an atheist? Steven Nadler, one of the world鈥檚 leading authorities on the philosopher, aims to settle the question and show that that鈥檚 exactly what he was. Read More
Interview Helen Pearson on Beyond Belief April 30, 2026 Helen Pearson tells the story of the evidence revolution鈥攁 worldwide movement that promotes evidence-based thinking鈥攁nd shows how it can help us all, especially in an age of alternative facts. Read More
The Bollingen Series then and now April 29, 2026 The Bollingen Series, a collection of 275 volumes with the聽Collected Works of聽C.G.聽Jung聽as its centerpiece, has been published by聽快色直播 since 1969. Read More
Interview Roland Betancourt on Disneyland and the Rise of Automation April 23, 2026 Roland Betancourt traces how Disneyland became a proving ground for automation at the very moment the American public was most anxious about its consequences. Read More
Interview Peter N. Miller on Conservation as a Human Science April 22, 2026 Conservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it. In this erudite and virtuosic book, the historian Peter N. Miller imagines the outlines of a new, expansive notion of conservation that links the world around us鈥攏atural and man-made鈥攖o the world inside us鈥攐ur genome, our memories. Read More
