Articles of Note

On September 26, 1940, in a room at the Hotel Franca in Portbou, Spain, Walter Benjamin swallowed 15 morphine tablets. What happened to his suitcase?... more »


New Books

A Kierkegaardian biography of Kierkegaard — an appealing concept. And yet a “sphere of infinite depth” turns out to be a poor model for lucid writing... more »


Essays & Opinions

The digital humanities are doomed, victimized by shoddy logic and bad math. Maybe. Or maybe they promise a sunny intellectual future for a suffering field... more... more »