So Help Me God
What all fifty-four inaugural addresses, taken as one long book, tell us about American history
By Ted Widmer Wednesday, December 1, 2004
What We Got Wrong
How Arabs look at the self, their society, and their political institutions
By Lawrence Rosen Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Point and Shoot
How the Abu Ghraib images redefine photography
By Andy Grundberg Wednesday, December 1, 2004
The Coming of the French
My life as an English professor
By Phyllis Rose Wednesday, December 1, 2004
The Software Wars
Why you can’t understand your computer
By Paul De Palma Wednesday, December 1, 2004
"I Can’t Believe I’m Doing It with Madame Bovary"
Learning to write musical comedy
By Jonathan Karp Wednesday, December 1, 2004
In Praise of Flubs
The pursuit of perfection has taken all the personality out of recorded classical music
By Sudip Bose Wednesday, December 1, 2004
The Peculiar Intellectual
In the antebellum South, scholars made serious contributions to their fields, at least until they turned to defending slavery
By Richard E. Nicholls Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South By Michael O’Brien
What Einstein Knew
One year and five papers that changed physics forever
By Tony Rothman Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Einstein 1905: The Standard of GreatnessBy John S. Rigden / The Einstein Almanac By Alice Calaprice
The Crooner and the Physicist
Jacques Brel and The New Yorker profile that never reached critical mass
By Jeremy Bernstein Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Kinship and Contradictions
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, December 13, 2024
Verde
Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew
By Jesse Lee Kercheval Thursday, December 12, 2024
“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
By Anne Matthews Thursday, December 5, 2024
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Ageby James Chappel
“To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing” by William Butler Yeats
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Under a Spell Everlasting
Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war
By Samantha Rose Hill Monday, December 2, 2024
