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How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes
Costica Bradatan considers the lessons of the famous Cynic Diogenes.
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
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.”
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.”
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.”
The Habit of Interestedness: On Eva Brann’s “Pursuits of Happiness”
Peggy Ellsberg reviews Eva Brann’s “Pursuits of Happiness: On Being Interested.”
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.
Beyond Liberalism?: On Raymond Geuss’s “Not Thinking Like a Liberal”
Richard Eldridge reviews Raymond Geuss’s “Not Thinking Like a Liberal.”
Never Solitary: On Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s “Breathing Aesthetics”
Ricky Varghese reviews Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s “Breathing Aesthetics.”
The Body in Topography
Mariam Gomaa reflects on the intertwining characteristics of health, surgery, religion, and philosophy.
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.
A Precarious Peace: On David Mason’s “Pacific Light”
Siham Karami reviews David Mason’s new collection of poems, “Pacific Light.”
Immodest Ideas: On Alain Badiou’s “The Immanence of Truths”
Christian P. Haines reviews the new English translation of Alain Badiou’s “The Immanence of Truths.”
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