Articles of Note

Janet Malcolm, whose literary reportage evinced an unsparing and precise gaze on the world, is dead. She was 86 ... NYTimes ... WaPo .. The New Yorker ... Guardian ... New Republic ... Ian Frazer ... Laura Marsh ... Leo Robson ... Jennifer Szalai ... David Graham... more »

New Books

The heroines of anthropology: One became a professor, one died, one was committed to a psychiatric hospital, and two quit academe  ... more »

Essays & Opinions

For Charles Taylor, the politics of recognition were central to modern identity. Now concerns over online reputation risk supplanting that principle  ... more »