Market Morality
The divine underpinnings of Western prosperity
By Michael Shermer Monday, December 7, 2020
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by Benjamin M. Friedman
Thought Experiment
Exploring the evolutionary origins of our brains
By Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Monday, December 7, 2020
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Experience Everything
How a letter from one great writer changed the life of another
By Simon Winchester Saturday, December 5, 2020
I Will Not Make Any More Boring Podcasts
What John Baldessari’s conceptual art can teach us about life during the pandemic
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, December 4, 2020
Long-Distance Punishment
Could a landmark work of conceptual art be an emblem for the Covid era?
By Sierra Bellows Thursday, December 3, 2020
Satirist to the Galaxy
The war behind a writer’s words
By Anne Matthews Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941–1945 edited by Edith Vonnegut
Keepers of the Old Ways
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 17, 2025
“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, January 13, 2025
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut
The Writer in the Family
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero
By Jonathan Liebson Wednesday, January 8, 2025
The Weight of a Stone
Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology
By Megan Craig Thursday, January 2, 2025
