Essay Arts & Letters Beauty Is Shoe By Wendy Steiner Is the model a subject, or is the subject a model? More
Essay Rule of Law Immune from the Law? By Joan Cocks The curious case of the sovereign citizens movement. More
Essay Education A Speculative Endeavor By Eleni Schirmer Education has become an investment. But what are its returns? More
Essay Eros Eros Between the Covers By Francine Prose A reconsideration of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. More
Essay Time Time After Time By John Crowley It’s possible to live in more than one time, more than one history of the world, without feeling a pressing need to reconcile them. 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 Time Strange Days By Sven Birkerts During convalescence it grows hard to tell the difference between when to pass the time and when to allow time to pass through. More
Essay Rule of Law The World’s Greatest Outlaw By Richard Cohen The life of Samuel Johnson, would-be attorney-at-law. More