Web Essays
The Very Elder Statesman
Konrad Adenauer transformed West Germany, doing his best work as an octogenarian
by Mark N. Grant | Friday, March 08, 2024
Iris as Pupil
Before this canonical English writer published novels, she was a student of French postwar philosophy
by Robert Zaretsky | Friday, March 01, 2024
Starving
The feelings of yearning and loss, when faced with an empty nest, can manifest in striking ways
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Friday, February 23, 2024
A State of Perpetual Unease
Sartre’s essay on French anti-Semitism cast the problem in existential terms
by Robert Zaretsky | Friday, December 15, 2023
Keeping House
Clinging to the rituals of home—even when longing to let them go
by Amanda Parrish Morgan | Friday, November 17, 2023
Philip Gove and “Our Word”
A lexicographer remembers the worst frigging part of the job
by David Skinner | Friday, November 10, 2023
Beethoven Underground
One ensemble bids farewell, with another just getting started
by Vivien Schweitzer | Thursday, November 02, 2023
The Forgotten Writers of the Shoah
What the work of women survivors can tell us about the horrors of life in the camps
by Jeanne Bonner | Friday, September 15, 2023
The Humanist in the Laboratory
A personal encounter with J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Mark N. Grant | Friday, August 25, 2023
The Decreationist
Simone Weil’s thoughts on the unmaking of the self