Spotlight
The Great Distraction
Why we talk about anything but climate change
by Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Web Essays
When Teachers Strike
Yes, strikes cause upheaval. But for some schools, upheaval is already the norm.
by Anne P. Beatty | Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Read Me a Poem
“Lot’s Wife” by Anna Akhmatova
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Friday, January 11, 2019
Measure by Measure
The Tranquility of Influence
Busoni’s Violin Concerto
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 10, 2019
View from Rue Saint-Georges
Dignity and the Individual
Abandon your grievances and strive for the heroic
by Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday, January 09, 2019
Read Me a Poem
“Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Friday, January 04, 2019
Current Issue
Over lunch at a Sichuan noodle restaurant in Paris, I spoke with a friend whose wife had recently had a baby (their third) about the increasingly difficult-to-brush-aside sense of despair that climate change imposes on the parental psyche. Seldom does a week go by without ever-more-alarming news flickering across our screens. Just last week, for […]
