Seventy Years Later
The Second World War destroyed Adolf Hitler, but his legacy is showing disturbing signs of life
By John Lukacs December 1, 2009
Strange Matter
The physics and poetics of the search for the God particle
By John Olson December 1, 2009
Wrestling with Two Behemoths
A longtime New Yorker, and New Yorker writer, gets the cold shoulder from powerful New York cultural institutions
By Ved Mehta December 1, 2009
Writing About Writers
Covering the book beat
By Bob Thompson November 19, 2009
The Doctor Is IN
At 88, Aaron Beck is now revered for an approach to psychotherapy that pushed Freudian analysis aside
By Daniel B. Smith September 1, 2009
A Mindful Beauty
What poetry and applied mathematics have in common
By Joel E. Cohen September 1, 2009
Armchair Travelers
The Renaissance writers and humanists Petrarch and Boccaccio turned to geography to understand the works of antiquity
By Toby Lester September 1, 2009
Mother Country
A daughter examines a life played out in romantic defiance of bad fortune
By Evelyn Toynton September 1, 2009
Martha Foley’s Granddaughters
What the esteemed literary editor never knew about the life of her troubled son, David Burnett
By Jay Neugeboren Thursday, July 18, 2024
To Catch a Sunset
Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love
By Sandra Beasley Thursday, July 11, 2024
The Next New Thing
In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before
By Witold Rybczynski Thursday, July 4, 2024
Imperfecta
Her brother’s disease leads a writer to challenge how we conceive of human abnormality in the emerging era of gene editing
By Pamela Haag Thursday, June 20, 2024
The Widower’s Lament
After the death of the poet Wendy Barker, her grieving husband turns to the literature of loss
By Steven G. Kellman Monday, March 4, 2024
The World at the End of a Line
The grandson of one of American literature’s Lost Generation novelists reflects on his namesake’s love of the sea
By John Dos Passos Coggin Thursday, April 13, 2023
The Goddess Complex
A set of revered stone deities was stolen from a temple in northwestern India; their story can tell us much about our current reckoning with antiquities trafficking
By Elizabeth Kadetsky Thursday, March 2, 2023
Last Rites and Comic Flights
A funeral in a 1984 Japanese film offers moments of slapstick amid the solemnity
By Pico Iyer Thursday, July 28, 2022
The Believer
When nobody would touch Joyce’s manuscript, Sylvia Beach stepped in
By Keri Walsh Wednesday, June 15, 2022
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