Gratitude for a Femme Fatale
An excerpt from Peter Carlson’s memoir-in-progress
By Peter Carlson Monday, December 5, 2016
The Lightness of Errol Flynn
In praise of the irresistible swashbuckler
By Brian Doyle Monday, December 5, 2016
Too Much Poetic License
An attempt to identify the object of the Bard’s affections
By Andrew Motion Monday, December 5, 2016
Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare’s Sonnets By Elaine Scarry
Tales From Motor City
Left for dead yet pulsing with life again, Detroit survives as a place of inconsistency and contradiction
By Laura Bernstein-Machlay Monday, December 5, 2016
The Gogol Notebook
Remembering Randall Jarrell’s passionate lectures on Russian literature and discovering the pangs of alienation that plagued the poet during his final years
By Angela Davis-Gardner Monday, December 5, 2016
“We Must Not Be Enemies”
Progressives who wish for a less reactionary America could begin by trying to understand the Trump voter
By Amitai Etzioni Monday, December 5, 2016
Milton Friedman’s Misadventures in China
The stubborn advocate of free markets tangles with the ideologues of a state-run economy
By Julian B. Gewirtz Monday, December 5, 2016
Selective Memory
Ideas do not always catch on right away
By Christoph Irmscher Monday, December 5, 2016
The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation By Randall Fuller
The Life Unlived
On W. G. Sebald and the uncertainties of time
By André Aciman Monday, December 5, 2016
Good Neighbors
When beavers came between us and a farmer down the road, we knew something more was at stake
By Tamara Dean Monday, December 5, 2016
Controlled Experiments
The Soviet Union’s ideological and inefficient view of science
By Aileen M. Kelly Monday, December 5, 2016
Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905–1953 By Simon Ings
Homebodies
A life spent mainly in the company of cats has meant relishing the comforts of domesticity and solitude
By Kyoko Mori Monday, December 5, 2016
