My Friend Marshall
The dean of American music critics on his late friend, public intellectual Marshall Berman.
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
Where Is Deconstruction Today?: On Jacques Derrida’s “Theory and Practice” and Byung-Chul Han’s “Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese”
Gregory Jones-Katz considers the legacy of deconstruction.
Philosophy for Everyone and No One: On Two Recent Books by John Kaag
John Muller discusses John Kaag’s innovation in the genre of philosophical memoir.
Ornamental Thinking: On “Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason”
Is Justin E. H. Smith's assemblage of material actually illuminating? Yes, but only sometimes.
1982: A Factory Odyssey: On Leslie Kaplan’s “Excess — The Factory”
Mikkel Krause Frantzen finds hope in “Excess — The Factory” by Leslie Kaplan, translated from the French by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap.
Human Organs: On Ernst Kapp’s “Elements of a Philosophy of Technology”
A review of Ernst Kapp's 1877 work, which represents "an important forerunner in theories of media and culture."
We Hold These Ideas to Be Self-Evident
Michael Kimmage considers "The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History" by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.
Must We Mean What We Say?: On the Life and Thought of Stanley Cavell
What the late Stanley Cavell’s memoir tells us about his philosophy.
A Knack for Embracing Impermanence: On Pico Iyer’s “Autumn Light”
A new memoir about coming to terms with aging and death.
The Desires of the Heart Are as Crooked as Corkscrews: John Kaag Interviews David Shields
David Shields discusses his new book, "The Trouble with Men."
The Therapy of Desire: Toward a Revolutionary Philosophy
Samuel Loncar on the revolution we need today.
On Never Going Home
Bradley B. Onishi reviews Mark C. Taylor's "Last Works: Lessons in Leaving."
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