Mechanical Spectacles
The prehistory of the robot.
All Reviews
A Very British Hatchet Job
"Fools, Frauds and Firebrands" is a reprise of Scruton's central intellectual effort to prove canonical left-wing academics either wrong or unscholarly.
The Full-Spectrum Loser
"Hotels of North America" consists of a series of Morse's hotel reviews for RateYourLodging.com.
Ephemeral Epiphanies
"Between You and Me," the tale of a middle-aged Manhattanite's domestication in the "raccoon-infested wilds of northern New Jersey," is a lovely, quiet novel.
When New York Erupted
In "City on Fire," the blackout serves as the moment when New York erupted.
Chasing Particles Is Fun
"A Singularly Unfeminine Profession" is more a blueprint for a fabulous book than a fully realized one, but it sparks discussion.
A Walk on the Wild Side
In "The Crossing," Harry crosses many bridges.
Prophets of a Noisy Heaven
A review of Michael Denning's "Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution."
The Pathologies of Organized Violence
Mukoma's story draws out the universal ways in which the nation (or its myth) is always founded on exclusions and violence.
Between Public and Private: Orhan Pamuk on the Intentions of Words and the Heart
A Strangeness in My Mind, a new novel by Orhan Pamuk explores the tension between private and public truths under oppressive regimes.
A Historical Nullity You Need to Read About
György Spiró's "Captivity" is worth the 800 pages.
Spectacular Designs
"The Feminine Future" draws attention to turn-of-the-century female sci-fi writers, who have been overlooked and under-recognized for their role.
Pedagogy with a Hammer: On the Use and Abuse of Nietzsche for a Neoliberal Era
Gone is the heyday of the enlightened institution. It is possible, some fear, that an anti-education has emerged in its wake.
Why Is Mario Vargas Llosa Complaining?
What moved a novelist of the stature of Mario Vargas Llosa — in a work of nonfiction — to unburden himself of a long list of complaints?
On Algorithmic Communism
In demanding something like fully automated luxury communism, Srnicek and Williams are ultimately asserting the rights of humanity as a whole to share in the spoils of capitalism.
Long Lasting Shadows
Norman Manea on "A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz" by Goran Rosenberg.
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