Words into Ploughshares

The Georgics in English just American enough

Universal Truths

The stories we’ve told ourselves about the heavens and the Earth

Moral Exemptions

Should the law give special rights to the religious?

Canon Fodder

Works that Need Some Explanation

An Epitapher of Literary Ghosts

William Dean Howells secured the reputations of others, but not his own

Drinking in the Past

Six beverages that changed the world

Telltale Hearts

Sisyphus at Oxford

Just Looking

What Is It Good For?

How the American military went from defense to offense

The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War By Andrew J. Bacevich

Conjurer of Worlds

The writer who made fantasy history

The Tower and the Ruin: J. R. R. Tolkien's Creationby Michael D. C. Drout

Hold the Salt

Reconsidering an ancient city’s bad reputation

Carthage: A New Historyby Eve MacDonald

Scientists in Dreamland

What might our nightly visions mean?

Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mindby Michelle Carr

The Minotaur’s Muses

The romantic cruelty of a brilliant artist

Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso's Lifeby Sue Roe

Compassionate Curmudgeon

Why we must root ourselves in the real world

Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimistby David Bather Woods

Swept Away

A gusty tour of one of our planet’s primordial forces

The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Windby Simon Winchester

Jessica Mitford on the British late-night talk show After Dark; August 20, 1988 (Wikimedia Commons)

Making Trouble

A British aristocrat’s leftist noblesse oblige

Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitfordby Carla Kaplan

All His Biographers Merely Players

Retracing the Bard’s lost years

The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeareby Daniel Swift

Playwright, Poet, Outsider, Spy

The Wayward Scholar of the London Stage

A Stranger Everywhere

The inner world of one of America’s great warrior poets

Baldwin: A Love StoryNicholas Boggs

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