Articles of Note

From The Decameron to Station Eleven, there has always been a literature of pandemic because there have always been pandemics... more »


New Books

Writing about music is a difficult thing, saying in words that which words cannot say. Philip Kennicott gets it exactly right... more »


Essays & Opinions

In 1948, Camus discovered Simone Weil’s manuscripts. They revolutionized not only his sense of suffering but his sense of self... more »