Articles of Note

Schooled in both Aquinas and Marx, Terry Eagleton remains the best advertisement for articulate argument and trenchant literary judgment... more »

New Books

Jonah Lehrer is back from exile. Chastened, but ready to return to the rarefied bubble of pop-science gurudom. His bid for redemption: a book about love that has no heart... more »

Essays & Opinions

When governments throw books on the bonfire, it's censorship. When writers burn their own words, it’s … what, exactly? An act of catharsis? Of sadism?... more »