Essay Politics Between the Lines By Robert Boyers A look at the crossroads where literature and politics meet, and the relationship between art and ideas. More
Essay The City Necropolis By Colin Dickey The corpse has proved to be a bedeviling problem for the city—how do we live with our dead? More
Essay Animals One of Us By John Jeremiah Sullivan Can animals think or feel, experience joy or sadness? Can they know their own existence? More
Essay The Future Trust Issues By Paul Collins Compound interest can help save for the future, or it can bankrupt the world. More
Essay Foreigners Istanbul Panorama By Bernd Brunner Turkey’s largest city has a long history of cosmopolitanism, but how does its cosmopolitan past differ from its cosmopolitan present? More
Essay Sports & Games Blossom and Fade By John Crowley Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game is an experience with the pathos and wonder of all games—the game that is the universe. More
Essay Celebrity Against Appearances By Bruce Bawer Orson Welles became a star not by creating some great work, but by simply scaring the hell out of people. More
Essay Ways of Learning Escape from the Ivory Tower By April Bernard Having a PhD may have nothing to do with loving literature and being able to teach it well. More
Essay Crimes & Punishments Hostile Takeovers By Matthew Power Are the values espoused by Somali pirates so very different from those upon which America was founded? More
