Articles of Note

Foucault rejected the label “theorist.” He saw himself as an experimenter. His ideas were tentative, fragmentary, and prone to change... more »

New Books

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog, warned E.B. and Katharine S. White —nobody cares, and the frog dies in the process. Still academics persist... more »

Essays & Opinions

Has fiction, over the centuries, been the creator of compassion or a vehicle for its containment? Zadie Smith weighs the evidence... more »