William Flesch teaches English, film, and some philosophy at Brandeis University. Among his books is Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction (2008). One day he’ll finish his book on quotation, which he’s been working on forever.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
A Quotable Love Story
An Honest Ghost, a novel constructed of quotations from other novels, becomes nothing less than a powerfully moving story of love, and loss, and their precious remainders, or the story rather of how what you love is always at risk of becoming only the trace and remainder of itself....
The Secrets of Consciousness and the Problem of God
I. LET’S SAY YOU WERE GOD. How could you know this? How could you be sure that you weren&...
Sex Sells: Helen DeWitt's "Lightning Rods"
IF YOU'RE A TOP producer, and a heterosexual man, the testosterone that gives you your drive may also make you, well, ...
Paradoxes of Altruism in the Digital Age
THE DRUDGE REPORT GETS about 30,000,000 hits a day, and has been long ensconced among the top hundred US ...
The Evil of Banality
ldquo;I'M BLIND, I’M BLIND” is the “inevitable cry” of the stricken in José Saramago&...
Liberalism in Flight: Cowboys, Fugitives, and Political Philosophy
This negative and lonely freedom allows the stranger to move through social groups while remaining free from their constraints....
