Essay Arts & Letters In the Gloom the Gold By Jamie James Consider the legacy of Ezra Pound—no poet has ever been so influential, so controversial, and so little read. More
Essay Rivalry & Feud Parry and Thrust By Jim Holt After a series of television clashes during the 1968 election, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. developed a warm hatred of each other. More
Essay Medicine In the Midst of Death By John Crowley If the universe can’t outlive or transcend individual consciousness, does death even really exist? 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 Travel The Vehicle of Language By Billy Collins Poetry invites us to take an imaginative journey: from the flatness of practical language into the rhythms and sound systems of poetic speech. More
Essay The Sea Around Alone By Maggie Shipstead The challenge of the world’s first solo, nonstop, around-the-world yacht race: to endure the danger of the sea, and the strain of solitude. More
Essay Revolutions Market Corrections By Orlando Figes “Is this what we made the revolution for?” Examining the origins and legacy of the New Economic Policy. More
Essay States of War The Persian Way of War By Tom Holland Unlike the Greeks, Xerxes viewed war as more than a simple matter of strategy. Rather, it was a means of flaunting global mastery. More
