Articles of Note

Joan Didion — novelist, essayist, memoirist, consummate stylist, icon of cool — is dead. She was 87... Parul Sehgal... Megan Garber... Nathan Heller... Emma Cline... Zadie Smith... Michiko Kakutani... Jay Caspian Kang... Len Gutkin... Hilton Als... Ross Douthat... Washington Post... more »


New Books

Theodor Adorno and Gershom Scholem, as different as “a sea creature and a land animal,” kept up a 30-year correspondence... more »


Essays & Opinions

Wittgenstein, who regarded philosophy as a “kind of magic,” noted more than a few parallels linking conjurers and philosophers ... more »