Articles of Note

As Furtwängler and Shostakovich showed, classical music has the ability to bind a nation. Why hasn’t that happened in America?... more »

New Books

Before the 1600s, the workplace drug most commonly consumed in the West was beer. Then capitalism brought a craze for something new: coffee... more »

Essays & Opinions

In literature, a disease is not just a disease. It is a return of the repressed, a manifestation of an eternal crisis... more »