Rage, Muse
The novels that revisit Greek myths, giving voice to the women who were scorned, wronged, or forgotten
By Wendy Smith Thursday, August 1, 2024
Martha Foley’s Granddaughters
What the esteemed literary editor never knew about the life of her troubled son, David Burnett
By Jay Neugeboren Thursday, July 18, 2024
To Catch a Sunset
Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love
By Sandra Beasley Thursday, July 11, 2024
The Next New Thing
In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before
By Witold Rybczynski Thursday, July 4, 2024
Imperfecta
Her brother’s disease leads a writer to challenge how we conceive of human abnormality in the emerging era of gene editing
By Pamela Haag Thursday, June 20, 2024
The Widower’s Lament 
After the death of the poet Wendy Barker, her grieving husband turns to the literature of loss
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, March 4, 2024
The World at the End of a Line
The grandson of one of American literature’s Lost Generation novelists reflects on his namesake’s love of the sea
By John Dos Passos Coggin Thursday, April 13, 2023
The Goddess Complex
A set of revered stone deities was stolen from a temple in northwestern India; their story can tell us much about our current reckoning with antiquities trafficking
By Elizabeth Kadetsky Thursday, March 2, 2023
Last Rites and Comic Flights
A funeral in a 1984 Japanese film offers moments of slapstick amid the solemnity
By Pico Iyer Thursday, July 28, 2022
The Believer
When nobody would touch Joyce’s manuscript, Sylvia Beach stepped in
By Keri Walsh Wednesday, June 15, 2022
The Invasion of Privacy
From the Autumn 1958 issue of The Scholar
By Richard H. Rovere Friday, June 1, 2007
A New Theory of the Universe
Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the equation
By Robert Lanza Thursday, March 1, 2007
When 2+2=5
Can we begin to think about unexplained religious experiences in ways that acknowledge their existence?
By Robert Orsi Thursday, March 1, 2007
In Pursuit of Innocence
From the Spring 1953 issue of The Scholar
By Paul Sears Thursday, March 1, 2007
The Apologist
The celebrated Austrian writer Peter Handke, who won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, appeared at the funeral of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. Should we forgive him?
By Michael McDonald Thursday, March 1, 2007
The Cook’s Son
The death of a young man, long ago in Africa, continues to raise questions with no answers
By Frank Huyler Thursday, March 1, 2007
One Day in the Life of Melvin Jules Bukiet
A Manhattan writer runs afoul of the local penal system and lives to tell the tale
By Melvin Jules Bukiet Thursday, March 1, 2007
The Dispossessed
First we stopped noticing members of the working class, and now we’re convinced they don’t exist
By William Deresiewicz Friday, December 1, 2006
