Articles of Note

Anecdote huckster and faux intellectual, or a genius sharing novel insights? Malcolm Gladwell reaches a professional tipping point ... more »

New Books

What do we get from minor literary characters like Hamlet’s Queen Gertrude or Monsieur Bovary? A way to see the world together... more »

Essays & Opinions

What does it mean to be serious? Who decides? How Emily Nussbaum uses the unseriousness of television to expose the machinations of seriousness more generally... more »