Of Good Horses and Bad Science
Steve Jones's "The Serpent's Promise" is not just a “retelling” of the Bible, but a critique of religion and a clarion call for science to replace it in human affairs.
All Reviews
The Roughneck’s Lament
Would you want to spend your leisure time with this kind of darkness?
The Apotheosis of Envy
"Malice" is both a "well-written, well-plotted police procedural" and "the story of two writers."
The Hilarity of Evil
Morten Høi Jensen on 'The Zone of Interest' by Martin Amis.
The Genetics of Genre, the Genre of Genetics
O Pioneer
In the early 19th century, any surgery was a brutal endeavor.
I Am Revolted from the Inside
Kyle McCarthy on Hilary Mantel and 'The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher'
The Fight for America’s Classrooms
The Teacher Wars is a lively case history of the nation’s teaching corps.
Living the Life of Allegory
"Walter Benjamin is a beguiling, thought-provoking figure, an eminently re-readable writer, and one whose life is worth pondering — both in itself and as a 'life of allegory,' as Keats said of Shakespeare, without a whole lot to go on."
Music and Lyric: On Poe’s Poetry
Jerome McGann’s aim is ambitious: to give Poe’s poetry academic significance.
Fear and Loathing in Freetown
As a journalist, Denis Johnson reported on some of the worst atrocities befalling Africa, but until now he had not used the material for fiction.
Lovely Bones: The Contested Invention of the Unknown Soldier
Alessandro Carrera on the mysteries of mourning, the Unknown Soldier, and the scholarship of Laura Wittman.
A Child Unkennelled
On the Life and Poetry of John Berryman
Casaubon’s Humanities
James Turner’s Philology makes a case for the comparative mode that gave birth to the modern humanities — but what does his argument say for the state of the humanities now?
Facing the Intolerable
Jacques Rancière and how a new politics of aesthetics disrupts the way we reduce violence into mediated forms.
A Subtle Weave of Layers
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