The Humanities in the Age of Loneliness
"Save the planet, read a book." Robert Newman on how to prevent the Eremocene.
All Essays
Imitation and Extinction: The Case Against Reality
(Un)happy Partners: On Jazz and Independent Film
How American independent cinema learned improvisation from jazz.
The Passing of Time: On Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s and Luchino Visconti’s “The Leopard”
Melissa Holbrook Pierson is overwhelmed by two great works named “The Leopard.”
Benjamin Moser and the Smallest Woman in the World
Magdalena Edwards tells of her experience with Benjamin Moser, author of the forthcoming “Sontag: Her Life and Work.”
Toward a Useful Melancholy: On Howard Norman’s Ghost Stories
Mark Athitakis assesses one of our most intelligent novelists of melancholy, Howard Norman.
Red Summer 1919/2019: The 100th Anniversary of a Current Crisis
In the age of Trump, Americans have conveniently forgotten their long history of white supremacist violence.
Sally Rooney: The Dark Side
Sally Rooney is trying to tell us something. Politics are in the forefront, but I’m guessing there is a dark secret lurking in the background.
Normalnost
Peter Pomerantsev, author of “This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality,” looks at the new normal in the era of Putin and Trump.
In the Room Where She Happens: On “Late Night”
Annie Berke examines “Late Night” in the contexts of writer-star Mindy Kaling’s public persona and the history of the woman in the writers’ room.
Reading “The Armies of the Night” in an Age of Youth Protest
What Norman Mailer’s 1968 antiwar classic has to say about the amorphousness of contemporary protest.
Habermas in German, European, North Atlantic, and Global Perspective
Matthew Specter on what Habermas's thought can offer Europe and the West today.
Habermas’s Concept of the Public Sphere and the New Feminist Agenda
María Pía Lara explores how Habermas's concept of the public sphere can inform today's and tomorrow's feminism.
Futures of Habermas’s Work
Matthias Fritsch wonders which parts of Habermas's corpus will resonate with future generations.
Habermas and the Light of Reason: On Late Critical Theory
Martin Jay on the ways Habermas’s attempt to restore the light of reason after its eclipse involved salient departures from traditional notions of reason.
The Public Sphere in Dark Times
Habermas believed, Noëlle McAfee writes, that a robust public sphere has the power to sift through the distortions and lies ...
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