The Popper Principle

Did Plato really espouse ideas that led eventually to totalitarianism?

It’s a Wonderful (Falling Apart) Life

In the disrepair of our everyday world are suggestions of life’s burdens and consolations

The Conspiracist Cotton Mather

The zealot who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials initially voiced restraint—what changed?

Baby Shoggoth Is Listening

Why are some writers tailoring their work for AI, and what does this mean for the future of writing and reading?

Skeletons in the Closet

Six literary haunted houses to visit this October

Turning Leaves and Turning Pages

The Case for Empathy

Walk a mile in someone else’s words

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Our favorite epistolary novels

To Urbino We Go

Piero’s faces and the verse of Mary Jo Salter

The Flagellation

The Ancients Among Us

The present and the past in the verse of John Tripoulas

Five Poems