
Articles
What Jesus Did
Forget about Christ as secular sage, historical figure, or even as Christian
by Garry Wills
Shouldn’t There Be a Word ... ?
The holes in our language and the never-ending search for words to fill them
by Barbara Wallraff
The Idea of Bombay
Bollywood epitomized modernity for a boy in a distant province. As an adult, he sees a troubled city.
by Gyan Prakash
Henry James vs. the Robber Barons
Why Italian art should stay in England, where it belongs, and not fall into the hands of foreigners
by Gorman Beauchamp
Departments
Poetry
What Philosopher
Vicki Hearne
Second Draft and Sparrow
James Longenbach
Morning and Reading Akhmatova
Karl Kirchwey
Commonplace Book
Good Cheer
André Bernard
Book Essay
Why Read George Eliot?
Her novels are just modern enough—and just old-fashioned enough, too