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 Animals How to Be a Stuffed Animal By Frances Stonor Saunders The American Museum of Natural History, Teddy Roosevelt, and the importance of taxidermy. More
Essay Time The Grand Illusion By Jim Holt Does time have a future? Yes, but how much of a future depends on what the ultimate fate of the cosmos turns out to be. More
Essay About Money Disaster at Dunkirk: A Nightmare Fantasy By Ian Kershaw A fictional reimagining of one of Hitler’s most fateful decisions. More
Essay Communication In the Panthéon By Philipp Blom History is written by the victors. So, too, in the world of ideas. Phillipp Blom on a group of thinkers far more daring than those enshrined in the Panthéon. More
Essay Swindle & Fraud A Fish Tale By David Samuels Long before Moby Dick, Herman Melville set off on a Polynesian trip that became a famous literary hoax. More
Essay Lines of Work Lost Tools By Donovan Hohn A tour of the antique tool trade confirms that they just don’t make things like they used to. More
Essay Death Fond Farewells By Bess Lovejoy Jessica Mitford’s An American Way of Death took down an industry few people knew about, but that everyone would one day need. More
