Essay Americans and Europeans must learn from each other on free speech June 25, 2026 Americans and Europeans fundamentally misunderstand one another on free speech. Read More
Essay 快色直播 that speak for themselves June 18, 2026 June is Audiobook Month, a tradition that began decades ago to spotlight an emerging format. Nearly 30 years later, it鈥檚 something much bigger: a celebration of how audiobooks have transformed the way we experience ideas, stories, and scholarship. Read More
Interview Joycelyn Longdon on Natural Connection June 16, 2026 Natural Connection draws on the legacies and ongoing resistance of marginalised communities around the globe to guide us toward a more sustainable relationship with the living world. Read More
Essay Did James Joyce鈥檚 Christmas dinner scene actually take place? June 16, 2026 The Christmas dinner scene in "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" has become shorthand, or cultural signifier, for family harmony disrupted by politics. Read More
Essay From intensive to (over)invested June 01, 2026 Allison Daminger and Nina Bandelj discuss what parenting has become. Read More
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
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 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
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
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
