Spotlight
A Conversation with Claude Grunitzky
by Thomas Chatterton Williams | Thursday, October 22, 2020
The Guest List
Skeletons in the Closet
Six literary haunted houses to visit this October
by Amanda Parrish Morgan | Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Read Me a Poem
“Sonnet” by Elizabeth Bishop
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Book Reviews
A Pioneering Appetite
The story of America’s first culinary celebrity
by Anne Matthews | Monday, October 19, 2020
Talking Pictures
Gangsters in Love
Revisiting Sergio Leone’s 1984 classic, Once Upon a Time in America
by David Lehman | Saturday, October 17, 2020
Smarty Pants Podcast
Do You Believe in Magic?
A global history of our oldest—and most maligned—practice
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, October 16, 2020
Book Reviews
Verifiable Truths
The thinkers who tried to strip metaphysics from philosophy
by Gary Saul Morson | Thursday, October 15, 2020
THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK
Current Issue
“The main reason the United States can’t contain Covid-19 is because it has not created a health system for everyone”—Philip Alcabes, “Race and Public Health”
Plus: Thomas A. Bass on our post-privacy world, Ingrid D. Rowland considers art after the plague, and Mark Edmundson wants English professors to teach what they love
Book Reviews
Admired and Abhorred
The German composer whose legacy continues to confound
by Steven G. Kellman
Book Essay
A Mind on Fire
In his acclaimed trilogy of intellectual biographies, Robert D. Richardson sought to help us overcome the burden of the past
by Sam Gee
Book Reviews
Beneath the Powdered Wig
Reinterpreting the life of our trendiest Founding Father
by Nancy Isenberg
Book Reviews
Varieties of Experience
Culture rewires our brains and shapes how we think
by T. M. Luhrmann
A Writer by Nature
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An excerpt from World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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