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Without Exception: On the Ordinariness of Violence
Brad Evans speaks with Lauren Berlant. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series.
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
An Intensity Leavened by Gentleness
A new biography of the seminal French literary and cultural theorist René Girard.
Zen and the Art of a Higher Education
What value does "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" have today?
Delight and Disgust: On the Contradictions and Complicities of Soccer
A new book on the poetics of soccer as lived experience.
Ideas to Live by: A Conversation with Mari Ruti
Tajja Isen and Philip Sayers sit down to talk with Mari Ruti about her new book, “Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings.”
Bruno Latour Tracks Down Gaia
Bruno Latour elaborates upon Gaia, a political biological theory concerning the Earth by James Lovelock.
Who Is a Beneficiary? You Are.
"The Beneficiary" is not invested simply in exposing liberal American hypocrisy. Instead this is a study of the uneasy place we live intellectually.
No More Nature: On Ecopoetics in the Anthropocene
"Poetry might best represent what capitalism has spoiled." Jean-Thomas Tremblay reviews two new books of ecopoetry.
Literature at Work: A Conversation with Derek Attridge
Francesco Giusti discusses literary criticism and theory with Derek Attridge, author of “The Work of Literature.”
Either Reason or a Rope: On Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule’s “Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters”
Kieran Setiya contemplates “Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters,” an engaging new book by Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule.
In the Snatches of Free Time: On Collecting Roland Barthes
Ayten Tartici pores over an “intentionally idiosyncratic collection of Barthesiana entitled ‘Album,’” edited by Éric Marty and translated by Jody Gladding.
Feminism’s Styles
A book on midcentury anti-feminism and the politics of sentimentality.
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