Why Stephen Greenblatt Is Wrong — and Why It Matters
ONE YEAR AGO THIS MONTH, Harvard Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt stepped to the podium at the Cipriani Club in New York City to accept the National Book Award for nonfiction. Greenblatt won for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, a ...
Literature Is not Data: Against Digital Humanities
'Big data is coming for your books.'...
Choosing Not to Be: On David Foster Wallace
On 'The Bad Thing,' depression, and suicide...
How to Read Žižek
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK, a philosopher and psychoanalyst from Slovenia, is one of the few academics to have achieved a degree of genuine popularity among general readers. He regularly lectures to overflow crowds, is the subject of a documentary film (called simply Ž...
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 5)
On Track and Swimming...
'I am what I am attached to': On Bruno Latour’s 'Inquiry into the Modes of Existence'
RIGHT NOW IN PARIS, Bruno Latour is being fêted. “One of the great intellectual adventures of our epoch […] the Hegel of our times,” enthuses Patrice Maniglier in Le Monde, who finds him a much more entertaining ...
Master Narrative: Who Did Emily Dickinson Write Her Love Letters To?
IN THE DECADE following Emily Dickinson’s death, most of her correspondence went up in flames. Lavinia Dickinson, the poet’s sister and companion, followed Emily’s directives and burned the entire cache of letters that the poet ...
Let Us Not to Our Readers Condescend
Open Marriage Chez Clem: A Life with Clement Greenberg
Between The Red Lines: An American Writer in China
In the Neighborhood: Tom Waits
'I am what I am attached to': On Bruno Latour’s 'Inquiry into the Modes of Existence'
Don’t Let the Future Be Written For You: Sabrina Vourvoulias’s “Ink”
The Re-readability of E.F. Benson
Obesity as Metaphor
Oscar and “Les Miz”
Victor Hugo Sings Again: On 'Les Misérables'
The Ballad Continues: On Nan Goldin
Dickens’s Actual Children: On Robert Gottlieb's "Great Expectations"
Promiscuity Without Consequence: James Meek on an Immoral Majority
The Journey, Like Time, Never Ends: An Interview with James Meek
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The Academy In Peril: A Symposium
What Happens When You Wait
Taking the Measure of Jack Kerouac: A Conversation with Joyce Johnson
Speak, Jack: Joyce Johnson’s New Biography of Jack Kerouac
Producers Anonymous: Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot
Portrait of a Press: Four Way Books, 20 Years On
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