Articles of Note

A grand tour gone wrong. The lexicographer Peter Mark Roget enjoyed the Alps and seeing Napoleon. Then war broke out... more »

New Books

Milman Parry died at 33, the victim of an accidentally jostled handgun. He'd already changed the humanities forever   ... more »

Essays & Opinions

Humanists like Jill Lepore see data as an enemy epistemology. That doesn’t have to be the case   ... more »