Articles of Note

Who gets to read Ulysses? For a book full of fart jokes, as Stephen Fry points out, it gets accused of pretentiousness quite a lot... more »

New Books

Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell is anachronistically modern: secular, tolerant, and kind to women, children, the poor, and animals... more »

Essays & Opinions

In seeking a New Canaan, the Puritans were deeply influenced by the Jewish notion of chosenness. Roger Williams — who rejected this idea — was even exiled... more »