Articles of Note

A Simone Weil revival is underway. She was strange, intelligent, and idiosyncratic, but her life tells us much about ourselves... more »


New Books

For Jill Lepore, history is about how we know what we know (or think we do), and what to make of the gap between evidence and truth... more »


Essays & Opinions

The Swedish Academy’s decision to take a year off from awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature brings to a close more than a century of foolishness... more »