The Art of Literature and the Science of Literature
The delight we get from detecting patterns in books, and in life, can be measured and understood
By Brian Boyd Saturday, March 1, 2008
Who Cares About Executive Supremacy?
The scope of presidential power is the most urgent and the most ignored legal and political issue of our time
By Lincoln Caplan Saturday, December 1, 2007
Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity
The first code of conduct during warfare, created by a Civil War–era Prussian immigrant, reflected ambiguities we struggle with to this day
By David Bosco Saturday, December 1, 2007
The Work of Death
How the Civil War changed forever Americans’ relationship with mortality
By Ernest B. Furgurson Saturday, December 1, 2007
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War By Drew Gilpin Faust
On the Road to Nowhere
Tom Stoppard’s Russian intellectuals take a wrong turn with Hegel, just as Edmund Wilson once did with Marx
By John Patrick Diggins Saturday, December 1, 2007
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
