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Is Life Worth Living?
Walter Benn Michaels explains his reservations about Martin Hägglund's "This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom."
All Essays
This Faith
Brandon M. Terry considers Martin Hägglund's "This Life" and its relation to the political philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Two Questions for Rudolfo Anaya
An homage to the Father of Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya
Letter from Marseille
A quarantine bulletin from the South of France.
The Art of Dissent
A documentary filmmaker and historian discusses his new film about Czech dissidents under the communist regime.
LACMA Town: The Museum as Urban Catalyst, Not Urban Desert
In this era of urban activism, the new LACMA should promote community, not gut it.
World Without End
Is the modernist novel obsolete in our disaster-haunted global era?
Undisciplining Victorian Studies
"What we ultimately wish to fight for is the freedom of scholars of color to work on any object, topic, and methodology they choose."
Connected
In its dark way, the pandemic affirms Darwin’s point about the elemental connectivity of life, for good and ill.
Why Gregory Bateson Matters
Ted Gioia reconsiders Gregory Bateson, whose counterculture classic, “Steps to an Ecology of Mind,” is eerily relevant again in our current crisis.
Up at Oxford
Amit Chaudhuri looks back on the Oxford of the late 1980s from an “Indian perspective.”
Nations of One and “Tokyo Olympiad”
Charles Taylor reviews the restoration and Blu-ray release of the 1965 documentary “Tokyo Olympiad,” centered on the 1964 Olympics.
Timeline, Flattening: Everyday Life in a Pandemic
Living through a quotidian catastrophe, one desperate text at a time.
Teaching Shakespeare Under Quarantine
Can we change the plot arc of the profit-driven, capitalistic university?
“Who Would Read Me, Lower Your Eyes”: Remembering Amparo Dávila
A celebration of one of Mexico’s greatest fantasists, by her English translator.
To Remember, Read, and Return: A Conversation Between Omar Sakr and George Abraham
Poets Omar Sakr and George Abraham on writing their latest books of poetry and decolonizing literature of the Arab diaspora.
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