PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

No Frigate Like a Metaphor: On Hans Blumenberg’s “The Readability of the World”

Bruce Krajewski reviews Hans Blumenberg “The Readability of the World,” translated by Robert Savage and David Roberts....

BRUCE KRAJEWSKI

Things Are Never as Dark as They Seem: A Conversation with Pico Iyer

Pooja Pande interviews Pico Iyer about his new book “The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise.”...

POOJA PANDE

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

Epicurus for Our Time

Robert Pogue Harrison approaches Epicurus for different ways of looking at the problems of today....

ROBERT POGUE HARRISON

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

Fashioning Death

Gwenda-lin Grewal examines the parallels between philosophy and fashion....

GWENDA-LIN GREWAL

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

Does a Final Theory Exist?: A Conversation with Alan Lightman

Julien Crockett talks with Alan Lightman about his new book “The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science.”...

JULIEN CROCKETT

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

Jena Romanticism and the Art of Being Selfish: On Andrea Wulf’s “Magnificent Rebels”

Anthony Curtis Adler reviews Andrea Wulf’s “Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self.”...

ANTHONY CURTIS ADLER

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

The Paradox Paradox: On Elizabeth S. Anker’s “On Paradox”

Michael W. Clune takes a dive at Elizabeth S. Anker‘s “On Paradox: The Claims of Theory.”...

MICHAEL W. CLUNE

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

Bludgeoning Process: On Serge Daney’s “The Cinema House and the World”

Greg Gerke reviews Serge Daney’s “The Cinema House and the World.”...

GREG GERKE

FILM

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

Competing Paradigms: On “The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn”

Philosopher Paul Dicken reviews a new volume, “The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science,” edited by Bojana Mladenović....

PAUL DICKEN

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

HISTORY

The Eternal Return of Fascism: A Conversation with Rob Riemen

Natasha Lennard speaks with Rob Riemen about the new fascism and the values of European humanism....

NATASHA LENNARD

POLITICS

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes

Costica Bradatan considers the lessons of the famous Cynic Diogenes....

COSTICA BRADATAN

POLITICS

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

Are You Living Your Best Multiverse Life?: An Interview with Jonathan Carroll

Evan Selinger talks with Jonathan Carroll about how to choose your best multiverse life in his new novel “Mr. Breakfast.”...

EVAN SELINGER

FICTION

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

A Brain of Two Minds: On Iain McGilchrist’s “The Matter with Things”

Rowan Williams reviews Iain McGilchrist’s “The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World.”...

ROWAN WILLIAMS

RELIGION

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

Beyond Our Delusions: On Iain McGilchrist’s “The Matter with Things”

Andrew Louth reviews Iain McGilchrist’s “The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World.”...

ANDREW LOUTH

RELIGION

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

The Habit of Interestedness: On Eva Brann’s “Pursuits of Happiness”

Peggy Ellsberg reviews Eva Brann’s “Pursuits of Happiness: On Being Interested.”...

PEGGY ELLSBERG

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

MEMOIR & ESSAY

Noir for the Anthropocene: On Elspeth Barker’s “O Caledonia”

Chelsea Jack Fitzgerald reviews Elspeth Barker’s “O Caledonia,” a Scottish noir interested in the connections between different types of anthropogenic damage....

CHELSEA JACK FITZGERALD

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

NOIR

Beyond Liberalism?: On Raymond Geuss’s “Not Thinking Like a Liberal”

Richard Eldridge reviews Raymond Geuss’s “Not Thinking Like a Liberal.”...

RICHARD ELDRIDGE

POLITICS

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Never Solitary: On Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s “Breathing Aesthetics”

Ricky Varghese reviews Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s “Breathing Aesthetics.”...

RICKY VARGHESE

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

The Body in Topography

Mariam Gomaa reflects on the intertwining characteristics of health, surgery, religion, and philosophy....

MARIAM GOMAA

RELIGION

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

MEMOIR & ESSAY

No One Receiving: On Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding’s “Alien Listening”

Patrick Valiquet responds to music theory’s close encounter with speculative realism in “Alien Listening: Voyager’s Golden Record and Music from Earth” by Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding....