I Think, Therefore …
How much can we really know about the mystery of ourselves?
By Kathryn Tabb Monday, February 29, 2016
The Tides of the Mindby David Gelernter / On Being Human by Jerome Kagan
The Sound of Silence
Jean Sibelius and the symphony that never was
By Sudip Bose Monday, February 29, 2016
The Remains of My Days
Fond and fading memories of a robust literary life
By Doris Grumbach Monday, February 29, 2016
As the Bard Turns
The international appeal of the man from Stratford-upon-Avon
By Wendy Smith Monday, February 29, 2016
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe By Andrew Dickson
Under the Influence
Prohibition may have failed, but the abolition of drunk driving seems within reach
By Brad Edmondson Monday, February 29, 2016
Off to See the Wizard
Finding the virtues of Homer, Plato, and Jesus in Technicolor Oz
By Mark Edmundson Monday, February 29, 2016
The Fruit of the Real
On the Russian dolls nested in the poems of Maureen N. McLane
By Langdon Hammer Monday, February 29, 2016
Meditation on a Rat
Who would have thought that this unlikely creature could help make a family whole again?
By Lucy Ferriss Monday, February 29, 2016
Under the Lid
Amid the the terrors of Pinochet’s Chile, a scornful witch exacts her haunting revenge
By Idra Novey Monday, February 29, 2016
Common Sense
It’s time for police officers to start demanding gun laws that could end up saving their own lives
By Robert Wilson Monday, February 29, 2016
Hunger Pangs
What it means to want in a world of plenty
By Karen J. Coates Monday, February 29, 2016
Lives of the Philosophers
The postwar thinkers who stripped the world of preconceptions
By Amanda Vaill Monday, February 29, 2016
At the Existentialist Café By Sarah Bakewell
Saving the Self in the Age of the Selfie
We must learn to humanize digital life as actively as we’ve digitized human life—here’s how
By James McWilliams Monday, February 29, 2016
Taking It to the Street
What it’s like to be down and out in America
By Jill Leovy Monday, February 29, 2016
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an IdeaBy Mitchell Duneier / Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City By Matthew Desmond
All Fall Down
Tackling America’s aging infrastructure problem
By Henry Petroski Monday, February 29, 2016
A New Heaven and a New Earth
During the Spanish Civil War, an alternative vision of society briefly flourished in Barcelona
By Adam Hochschild Monday, February 29, 2016
All the World’s a Page
Crowdsourcing the Bard at the Folger Shakespeare Library
By Charlotte Salley Monday, February 29, 2016
The Pursuit of Middle Heaven
Missives about sex, love, and the value of really good talk
By George O’Brien Monday, February 29, 2016
Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934–1995 Edited by Avril Horner and Anne Rowe
I Will Love You in the Summertime
Between the rupture of life and the rapture of language lies a world of awe and witness
By Christian Wiman Monday, February 29, 2016
