A Man and His Persona: On “Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise”
A revealing biography of an iconic Hollywood star....
A Man and His Persona: On “Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise”
A revealing biography of an iconic Hollywood star....
Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated
Reviewing “On the Fringe,” Suman Seth uses 18th-century theories of putrefaction to show how flimsy the line between science and pseudoscience can be....
The Beijing Heidegger Reading Group
Coby Goldberg on his time with the Beijing Heidegger Reading Group....
The Constitutional Conflationists: On Abigail Shrier’s “Irreversible Damage” and the Dangerous Absurdity of Anti-Trans Trolls
Sarah Fonseca on how Abigail Shrier's trolling interpretation of the United States Constitution threatens to put millions of kids’ lives in jeopardy....
Meritocracy and Its Discontents: The View from Outside Harvard Yard
Christopher Kutz reviews Michael Sandel's new book, "The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?"...
Lying with Numbers
At the end of the 19th century social scientists embraced statistics that “proved” Black criminality. Therein lies a tale....
Crisis as Freedom: Muhammad Iqbal and Walter Benjamin
What can two early-20th-century thinkers teach us about our pandemic “interregnum”?...
Black Germans and the Politics of Diaspora: On Tiffany Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany”
Subverting the Canon of Patriarchy: Lesya Ukrainka’s Revisionist Mythmaking
Field Notes and Flying Machines: On Te-Ping Chen’s “Land of Big Numbers”
Submersion: The Sensory-Heightened Fiction of Elvira Navarro
Vulnerable Outsiders: On D. A. Mishani’s “Three”
Summoned to the Stand: On Erica McAlpine’s “The Poet’s Mistake”
I Knocked on the Window and Waved: An Interview with Suleika Jaouad
Freethinkers Versus the Monsterverse: An Excerpt from “The New Enlightenment”
An Empire of Stupidity: On Dubravka Ugrešić’s “The Age of Skin”
The Machine Stops: Science and Its Limits
TOMASZ RóżYCKI, MIRA ROSENTHAL
Star Vehicle: On Translating Poetry
All Souls Rising
Forgive and Remember: A Conversation with Susan Shapiro
Signs of Life in a Surreal World: A Conversation with Charlotte Mandell on Breton and Soupault’s “The Magnetic Fields”
Sarah Moss’s Anxiety Chronicles
Greenwood at 100
DAVID M. HIGGINS, MATTHEW IUNG
A History of Cyberpunk Comics
Moving Houses: A Conversation with Zenobia Frost
“I Hate Everything Equally”: Mu Pan’s Ironic Art
Ted and Sylvia