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Feb. 26, 2021

Articles of Note

The book blurb requires too much work and induces too much guilt. As Viet Thanh Nguyen says, “Kill it. Bury it. Dance on its grave.”... more »


New Books

René Girard’s one-liners: Nietzsche was “so wrong that in some ways he’s right”; Sartre was “too even-keeled to become a true genius”... more »


Essays & Opinions

Psychoanalysis and the novel. Authors and analysts are repositories of insight about our motives and behaviors   ... more »


Feb. 25, 2021

Articles of Note

What happens when race, class, and power collide at an elite liberal-arts college? No one emerges unscathed  ... more »


New Books

More people than ever are sending photos of themselves naked. The pleasures and perils of the nude selfie... more »


Essays & Opinions

Dear Abby, Dear Prudence, Ask Polly - we've reached Peak Advice. But are readers getting anything from all the edification?  ... more »


Feb. 24, 2021

Articles of Note

No human invention has destroyed the civilization that invented it. We haven't been careful or wise — just lucky  ... more »


New Books

Borges, Le Guin, Daniel Keyes — the best philosophical fiction prickles your conscience and knocks your moral sense askew  ... more »


Essays & Opinions

“The right advice to an ‘Unhappily Married Woman’ is not to tell her to imagine having sex with a different man, but as a different woman”  ... more »


Feb. 23, 2021

Articles of Note

Two bookshelves, all but identical in appearance and construction, exemplify two radically different ideas about politics and design... more »


New Books

Pankaj Mishra styles himself an outsider against an irredeemable establishment. But increasingly he finds himself in the mainstream... more »


Essays & Opinions

Andy Owen went to war certain that he was advancing the cause of progress. He found a necessary rebuke in the work of John Gray... more »


Feb. 22, 2021

Articles of Note

Unearthing Caligula's pleasure garden. Was he assassinated because he was a monster, or was he made into a monster because he was assassinated? ... more »


New Books

When the moment calls for buffoonery and slapstick, ribald invective, and comedy that turns on bodily functions, enter Aristophanes... more »


Essays & Opinions

In our time of plague, a cast of literary oracles has emerged: Camus, Defoe, Saramago. But in feeling trapped, Kafka is paramount... more »


Feb. 20, 2021

Articles of Note

How to write, according to Martin Amis: No fancy syntax; use line breaks liberally; be original; see things with a poet’s eye... more »


New Books

A Romantic-era notion holds that science kills wonder. The work of Alan Lightman only multiplies it... more »


Essays & Opinions

In literary studies, melodrama reigns as paranoia is pitted against repair, violence against nurture, suspicion against trust   ... more »


Feb. 19, 2021

Articles of Note

Psychosis and dissociation were key mechanisms for Surrealist artists. Down with Western logic! they cried. Long live paranoia!... more »


New Books

Alan Greenspan wished he’d never spoken of “irrational exuberance”; Thomas Kuhn rued introducing “paradigm shift” — coiner’s remorse is real ... more »


Essays & Opinions

Most anti-Semites hate Jews for what they imagine Jews to be. T.S. Eliot, by contrast, hated Jews for what they really are ... more »


Feb. 18, 2021

Articles of Note

What is the cultural sway of magazines when there are 20-year-old TikTok influencers with many more subscribers than Time?  ... more »


New Books

A mammoth new biography of Philip Roth is imminent. Who better to review it than, well, Philip Roth?  ... more »


Essays & Opinions

"At 43 I constantly feel out of place with you. I have all the wrong thoughts and desires." A writer breaks up with his writing career... more »


Feb. 17, 2021

Articles of Note

In Victorian times, one sat erect in polite society. Enter the scandalous American rocking chair — a “lazy and ungraceful indulgence”... more »


New Books

The legacy of British imperialism is everywhere: Even the word “loot” is appropriated — from the Hindi “lut,” the spoils of war... more »


Essays & Opinions

Can you be traumatized by a secondhand experience? For historians of humankind’s darkest chapters, the answer appears to be “yes”... more »


Feb. 16, 2021

Articles of Note

Classics is beholden to a traditional, triumphalist, “Western civ” model. If the field doesn’t change, it doesn’t deserve to survive  ... more »


New Books

When it comes to Patricia Highsmith, the question of mental illness, of course, arises. Her personality was interwoven with those of her characters  ... more »


Essays & Opinions

Loving literature can be an entrée to the academic world. Such passion can also imprison you in academe’s broken system  ... more »


Feb. 15, 2021

Articles of Note

Computers can’t understand a haiku or conjure a fairytale. They can't grasp literature at all. And they never will. Here's proof   ... more »


New Books

Joan Didion's potency and influence stems for her ability to repurpose an ingrained sense of futility into a tool of critical analysis... more »


Essays & Opinions

Every generation of artists has its problems with museums. Museums were once too corporate. Now they are “carceral and colonial, and thus ableist”   ... more »


Feb. 13, 2021

Articles of Note

Seth Abramson's books promise "proof" of Trumpian misdeeds. In reality, they are incoherent summaries of other people's reporting  ... more »


New Books

To separate science from pseudoscience, it helps to consider the rationales of UFOlogists, Yeti enthusiasts, and yes, anti-vaxxers  ... more »


Essays & Opinions

Forget lords and ladies - the true history of the Middle Ages is found in legal accounts of peasants' crimes, conflicts, and inheritances  ... more »


Feb. 12, 2021

Articles of Note

There is “a new kind of marginalized literature: literature that does not serve the didactic purposes of the postcolonial survey course”  ... more »


New Books

After residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell, along with a Guggenheim and a MacArthur, Bette Howland never wrote another book  ... more »


Essays & Opinions

Avoid oversimplification, question metaphors, stop talking in slogans — so urges a little book from the 1930s, a user’s manual for the mind... more »


Feb. 11, 2021

Articles of Note

Reading Heidegger in Beijing. He's a rock star in academic circles there. But kindly ignore the corruptive impact of a bad regime on a great thinker  ... more »


New Books

Golden age of the cigarette. The war over smoking is too easily cast as one of heroes and villains - in truth things were much messier  ... more »


Essays & Opinions

Criticism is often a cycle of destruction, a matter of winners and losers. Tear down a peer's work to elevate your own  ... more »


Feb. 10, 2021

Articles of Note

Do "woke" American ideas on race, gender, and post-colonialism really pose an existential threat to France?... more »


New Books

Acid humor, a flair for pith, a feel for the uncanny — Joan Didion’s talents have been celebrated for decades. Let’s not stop now... more »


Essays & Opinions

In the 1950s, writers began to formulate a critique of technology. Since then we've rushed into an uncritical embrace. What now?... more »


Feb. 9, 2021

Articles of Note

When Charles Darwin met Harriet Martineau, she enjoyed a level of influence he could not imagine. And she challenged his dim view of women   ... more »


New Books

"Yeats saw so deeply into the contours of his age that the shape of the future became somewhat discernible"   ... more »


Essays & Opinions

A biography paints Tom Stoppard as unfailingly kind. The playwright’s reaction? He is “not as nice as people think”   ... more »


Feb. 8, 2021

Articles of Note

Cassandra of the internet age: As far back as the mid-'80s, Michael Goldhaber was worried about the attention economy. ... more »


New Books

Was the painter Francis Bacon a truth-teller about humanity's animal nature, or a mere mimic, best at rendering feet, doorknobs, and toiletware?  ... more »


Essays & Opinions

On pop futurism. The genre's method? Sketch out possible future, highlight emergent trend, and promise way for reader to benefit  ... more »


Feb. 6, 2021

Articles of Note

Juliet did not say "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore [is he] Romeo?" So why do so many people deface quotes with brackets? ... more »


Essays & Opinions

The ur-existentialist. Kierkegaard was torn by his desires for recognition and for walking the path of a self-denying Christian  ... more »


Essays & Opinions

The provincialism of American literary culture: We want books that "speak to the moment," espousing a political urgency. That's small-minded  ... more »


Feb. 5, 2021

Articles of Note

How Mary-Kay Wilmers refashioned the London Review of Books in her image: literary and eccentric... more »


New Books

Both Seamus Heaney and Sylvia Plath were caught in the web of literary fame. But he lived to 74, she died at 30. The difference is instructive  ... more »


Essays & Opinions

A fact about the academic humanities? "Bomb-throwing radicals turn into humdrum humanists when they make the case for their departments"... more »


Feb. 4, 2021

Articles of Note

The book pirates of 18th-century France devised a strategy: Republish works by Voltaire. It was “an enterprise of solid gold”... more »


New Books

As a 23-year-old social-media influencer tops the best-seller list in France, the old guard fights back: “147 pages of emptiness, 19.50 lost euros” ... more »


Essays & Opinions

Transgression was the founding gesture of the avant-garde. Now the avant-garde can seem a little "rapey." What changed? ... more »


Feb. 3, 2021

Articles of Note

Dan-el Padilla Peralta is one of the most prominent classicists of his generation. He's not sure the field should exist ... more »


New Books

In her writings, Mary Wollstonecraft flouted social norms. In life, she often defied her own pronouncements ... more »




Articles of Note

The book blurb requires too much work and induces too much guilt. As Viet Thanh Nguyen says, “Kill it. Bury it. Dance on its grave.”... more »


What happens when race, class, and power collide at an elite liberal-arts college? No one emerges unscathed  ... more »


No human invention has destroyed the civilization that invented it. We haven't been careful or wise — just lucky  ... more »


Since 1998, Arts & Letters Daily has linked to more than 17,000 articles, book reviews and essays. Consider supporting us. »

Two bookshelves, all but identical in appearance and construction, exemplify two radically different ideas about politics and design... more »


Unearthing Caligula's pleasure garden. Was he assassinated because he was a monster, or was he made into a monster because he was assassinated? ... more »


How to write, according to Martin Amis: No fancy syntax; use line breaks liberally; be original; see things with a poet’s eye... more »


Psychosis and dissociation were key mechanisms for Surrealist artists. Down with Western logic! they cried. Long live paranoia!... more »


What is the cultural sway of magazines when there are 20-year-old TikTok influencers with many more subscribers than Time?  ... more »


In Victorian times, one sat erect in polite society. Enter the scandalous American rocking chair — a “lazy and ungraceful indulgence”... more »


Classics is beholden to a traditional, triumphalist, “Western civ” model. If the field doesn’t change, it doesn’t deserve to survive  ... more »


Computers can’t understand a haiku or conjure a fairytale. They can't grasp literature at all. And they never will. Here's proof   ... more »


Seth Abramson's books promise "proof" of Trumpian misdeeds. In reality, they are incoherent summaries of other people's reporting  ... more »


There is “a new kind of marginalized literature: literature that does not serve the didactic purposes of the postcolonial survey course”  ... more »


Reading Heidegger in Beijing. He's a rock star in academic circles there. But kindly ignore the corruptive impact of a bad regime on a great thinker  ... more »


Do "woke" American ideas on race, gender, and post-colonialism really pose an existential threat to France?... more »


When Charles Darwin met Harriet Martineau, she enjoyed a level of influence he could not imagine. And she challenged his dim view of women   ... more »


Cassandra of the internet age: As far back as the mid-'80s, Michael Goldhaber was worried about the attention economy. ... more »


Juliet did not say "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore [is he] Romeo?" So why do so many people deface quotes with brackets? ... more »


How Mary-Kay Wilmers refashioned the London Review of Books in her image: literary and eccentric... more »


The book pirates of 18th-century France devised a strategy: Republish works by Voltaire. It was “an enterprise of solid gold”... more »


Dan-el Padilla Peralta is one of the most prominent classicists of his generation. He's not sure the field should exist ... more »


The law professors Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule call for rule by social-scientific elites. That would be a disaster... more »


Silvia Foti's grandfather is a national hero in Lithuania. He also worked with the Nazis to kill Jews. His story has echoes across Eastern Europe ... more »


In 1995 a Luddite and a Wired co-founder made a bet: In 25 years, will technology have destroyed society? A verdict is in  ... more »


There are many shades of blue — cerulean, azure, navy, royal — but not a new one in two centuries. Until now... more »


The history of the restaurant. Each generation thinks it eats better than the last. The pandemic will challenge that assumption ... more »


Takedown artist Lauren Oyler is unapologetic: “I’m not afraid of being disliked by people that I already dislike.” How will critics receive her novel?   ... more »


Since the Second World War, scientists have understood the human brain as a predictive machine. Is that still a useful metaphor?   ... more »


It's thought that Newton's Principia was such a monster of technical detail that few read it. That's a myth, it turns out ... more »


Oligarchs stepped in to bolster the arts in post-Soviet Russia. But is the work they have bankrolled any good?  ... more »


Should artificial intelligence model the brain or the mind? The debate has led to a fractious split in the field... more »


Darwin in space. If there is life on other planets, it will have evolved along the same lines as life on earth  ... more »


Russian avant-garde art has been a font of fakery for decades. Some artists, celebrated in the West, may never have existed  ... more »


Mass unhappiness and social breakdown have spawned something new: the caring industry, with its revolutionary ideology  ... more »


In the late '90s, a professor began talking with Bruno Lohse, art agent to Hermann Göring. Then things got complicated... more »


How many wives did King Henry VIII have? Where does the f-word come from? Wikipedia has the answers. But where did Wikipedia come from?   ... more »


1984 is again atop the best-seller list. Cue the rampant misuse of the term “Orwellian” ... more »


It was a “moral compass,” “a Grapes of Wrath for our times.” And then it was not. The inside story of American Dirt’s implosion  ... more »


Cavemen have been widely studied. Cavewomen, less so. Now science is learning more about the Sheanderthal... more »


Being a beginner is hard at any age, but it gets harder as you get older. Kids, knowing less, can learn more ... more »


New Books

René Girard’s one-liners: Nietzsche was “so wrong that in some ways he’s right”; Sartre was “too even-keeled to become a true genius”... more »


More people than ever are sending photos of themselves naked. The pleasures and perils of the nude selfie... more »


Borges, Le Guin, Daniel Keyes — the best philosophical fiction prickles your conscience and knocks your moral sense askew  ... more »


Pankaj Mishra styles himself an outsider against an irredeemable establishment. But increasingly he finds himself in the mainstream... more »


When the moment calls for buffoonery and slapstick, ribald invective, and comedy that turns on bodily functions, enter Aristophanes... more »


A Romantic-era notion holds that science kills wonder. The work of Alan Lightman only multiplies it... more »


Alan Greenspan wished he’d never spoken of “irrational exuberance”; Thomas Kuhn rued introducing “paradigm shift” — coiner’s remorse is real ... more »


A mammoth new biography of Philip Roth is imminent. Who better to review it than, well, Philip Roth?  ... more »


The legacy of British imperialism is everywhere: Even the word “loot” is appropriated — from the Hindi “lut,” the spoils of war... more »


When it comes to Patricia Highsmith, the question of mental illness, of course, arises. Her personality was interwoven with those of her characters  ... more »


Joan Didion's potency and influence stems for her ability to repurpose an ingrained sense of futility into a tool of critical analysis... more »


To separate science from pseudoscience, it helps to consider the rationales of UFOlogists, Yeti enthusiasts, and yes, anti-vaxxers  ... more »


After residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell, along with a Guggenheim and a MacArthur, Bette Howland never wrote another book  ... more »


Golden age of the cigarette. The war over smoking is too easily cast as one of heroes and villains - in truth things were much messier  ... more »


Acid humor, a flair for pith, a feel for the uncanny — Joan Didion’s talents have been celebrated for decades. Let’s not stop now... more »


"Yeats saw so deeply into the contours of his age that the shape of the future became somewhat discernible"   ... more »


Was the painter Francis Bacon a truth-teller about humanity's animal nature, or a mere mimic, best at rendering feet, doorknobs, and toiletware?  ... more »


Both Seamus Heaney and Sylvia Plath were caught in the web of literary fame. But he lived to 74, she died at 30. The difference is instructive  ... more »


As a 23-year-old social-media influencer tops the best-seller list in France, the old guard fights back: “147 pages of emptiness, 19.50 lost euros” ... more »


In her writings, Mary Wollstonecraft flouted social norms. In life, she often defied her own pronouncements ... more »


Did E.E. Cummings’s relationship with a French prostitute really have a serious effect on his work?... more »


We inhabit a dystopian reality, says John Gray, which may account for the dearth of dystopian fiction... more »


Dostoevsky endured emphysema, hemorrhoids, and six epileptic fits a week. And yet, in his overheated and unventilated office, he persisted  ... more »


Mozart in Vienna. In 10 years he composed a half-dozen symphonies, 17 piano concertos, and several operas. It was as close to perfect as he ever came... more »


Being Francis Bacon. He lived with such intensity because death was a constant presence  ... more »


The postcapitalist theorist Mark Fisher worked at the periphery of journalism and academia, penning few books. And yet his influence is enormous   ... more »


Pirate publishers saturated the market and filled warehouses with unsellable stock. Result: the publishing crash of 1783... more »


Robert Gottlieb on Harold Bloom: "It is a tremendous pity that the final statement from a critic of such significance...should be this disjointed effort"   ... more »


What are dreams? A kind of theater of the unconscious? Random neural firings? A Darwinian adaptation?  ... more »


Young people rush to join the creative class of artists and academics. But beware the sacrifices that come with doing what you love   ... more »


Lucian Freud was violent, selfish, vindictive, lecherous. If he was not the devil, he was certainly the devil's advocate  ... more »


Wikipedia, comprising more than 55 million articles, is enormously popular. Is it "the last bastion of shared reality"?  ... more »


According to Schopenhauer, existence vacillates between suffering and boredom. In such a world, earthly happiness is impossible  ... more »


“Pampered lunatics often reach a great age,” it's been said. And so it was with Lucian Freud... more »


Dostoevsky in love. What's romance to a man who believed that suffering gives value to existence?... more »


Stop reading like a critic. It’s time we treat Beckett and de Beauvoir the same way we do Beyoncé and the Boss — with devotion  ... more »


More than the mother of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft was the mother of two flesh-and-blood daughters  ... more »


For George Saunders, fiction is fundamentally moral. Despite all that it can teach us, however, it is not our salvation ... more »


Anne Applebaum is deft at critiquing anyone to her left or right. She is far less willing to interrogate her own assumptions  ... more »


Essays & Opinions

Psychoanalysis and the novel. Authors and analysts are repositories of insight about our motives and behaviors   ... more »


Dear Abby, Dear Prudence, Ask Polly - we've reached Peak Advice. But are readers getting anything from all the edification?  ... more »


“The right advice to an ‘Unhappily Married Woman’ is not to tell her to imagine having sex with a different man, but as a different woman”  ... more »


Andy Owen went to war certain that he was advancing the cause of progress. He found a necessary rebuke in the work of John Gray... more »


In our time of plague, a cast of literary oracles has emerged: Camus, Defoe, Saramago. But in feeling trapped, Kafka is paramount... more »


In literary studies, melodrama reigns as paranoia is pitted against repair, violence against nurture, suspicion against trust   ... more »


Most anti-Semites hate Jews for what they imagine Jews to be. T.S. Eliot, by contrast, hated Jews for what they really are ... more »


"At 43 I constantly feel out of place with you. I have all the wrong thoughts and desires." A writer breaks up with his writing career... more »


Can you be traumatized by a secondhand experience? For historians of humankind’s darkest chapters, the answer appears to be “yes”... more »


Loving literature can be an entrée to the academic world. Such passion can also imprison you in academe’s broken system  ... more »


Every generation of artists has its problems with museums. Museums were once too corporate. Now they are “carceral and colonial, and thus ableist”   ... more »


Forget lords and ladies - the true history of the Middle Ages is found in legal accounts of peasants' crimes, conflicts, and inheritances  ... more »


Avoid oversimplification, question metaphors, stop talking in slogans — so urges a little book from the 1930s, a user’s manual for the mind... more »


Criticism is often a cycle of destruction, a matter of winners and losers. Tear down a peer's work to elevate your own  ... more »


In the 1950s, writers began to formulate a critique of technology. Since then we've rushed into an uncritical embrace. What now?... more »


A biography paints Tom Stoppard as unfailingly kind. The playwright’s reaction? He is “not as nice as people think”   ... more »


On pop futurism. The genre's method? Sketch out possible future, highlight emergent trend, and promise way for reader to benefit  ... more »


The ur-existentialist. Kierkegaard was torn by his desires for recognition and for walking the path of a self-denying Christian  ... more »


The provincialism of American literary culture: We want books that "speak to the moment," espousing a political urgency. That's small-minded  ... more »


A fact about the academic humanities? "Bomb-throwing radicals turn into humdrum humanists when they make the case for their departments"... more »


Transgression was the founding gesture of the avant-garde. Now the avant-garde can seem a little "rapey." What changed? ... more »


Philosophers have sought for centuries to understand beauty. Now scientists are giving it a try ... more »


Helen Frankenthaler was many things, but perhaps not “a Shakespeare of the Eisenhower era,” as a fulsome biography asserts... more »


Christopher Hitchens's widow and agent are trying to sink a biography in progress. Whose interests are they serving?  ... more »


"I am detail-oriented," "I am a team player" - cover letters require us to use language in horrific ways  ... more »


Geniuses are often obsessive, self-centered, and offensive. As Edmond de Goncourt put it: Almost no one loves a genius until he or she is dead... more »


Art of the zinger. In the delivery of a ringing - and withering - phrase, Clive James was without parallel  ... more »


Joan Didion was 70 before she finished a nonfiction book not drawn from magazine assignments. Her talent is spinning craftwork into art   ... more »


Critics hold that “the question of correctness is generally irrelevant” in poetry. But they’re mistaken about poets’ mistakes... more »


19th-century science supposedly elevated the disinterested mind over human vitality. But Alexander von Humboldt’s story challenges that narrative ... more »


Derrida and Foucault are often categorized by their critics as like-minded thinkers. In fact, they spent most of their lives disagreeing  ... more »


Conspiracy theories have always existed and always will. The problem isn’t with the theories, but with our susceptibility to them... more »


The American elite is now the first national ruling class - a good thing in some ways, bad in others. Michael Lind explains  ... more »


Plagued by anxiety attacks, Beckett turned to poetry, cardiology, psychoanalysis, and finally, obscure 17th-century Christian mysticism... more »


Adam Smith was at most a deist, and David Hume was an avowed skeptic. But religion influences the economic ideas they produced  ... more »


There’s an app for that! The notion that technology offers the best solution to any problem is appealing. And dangerous... more »


How should we read? For Will Self, “we would read as gourmands eat, gobbling down huge gobbets of text” ... more »


The paradox of political science: Only by remaining aloof from the messiness of politics can it achieve the scientific authority it craves  ... more »


“I have never written a plot-driven novel,” held Ursula Le Guin. “I don’t do it; never did it; don’t want to; can’t”  ... more »


The isolation artist. Edward Hopper's paintings make an emotional resurgence amid our sustained solitude  ... more »


When Catherine Camus was informed of the death of her son Albert, all she could say was, “Too young”  ... more »


Americans say they want 2.5 children, but they're having only 1.7, on average. Why? Ross Douthat's case for larger families... more »


Ferociously dull and laden with puffery, the academic book review is a tedious genre that's outlived its purpose ... more »


The genius of Schubert’s syphilitic years was to draw the listener into his melancholy world, all the while pointing to an unattainable beauty ... more »


René Girard was not a particularly great theorist. It's easy to spot his weaknesses and lacunae. But he is the theorist our era deserves... more »


The goal of all art is inexhaustible precision — something simple, like Melville’s whale, that gains endlessly in complexity... more »


Henri Breuil, “the Pope of Prehistory,” did more than anyone else to prove that our early ancestors were capable of symbolic thought... more »


"To find humor in death isn’t to degrade or deny the sanctity of human life, but rather to grapple with its finite nature"  ... more »


"If one were interested in the sexual life of the professoriate at the turn of the last century, it would be strange to omit Veblen" ... more »


The artist who most acutely registers the deranged quality of contemporary American public life? Peter Saul... more »


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