The Latest

Philosophy

Necessary Truths

On Scott Soames’s Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century.

  • Alex Byrne
  • Ned Hall
Arts in Society Law Politics

High Art in Low Times

Two new books on the cultural Cold War.

  • Catherine Gunther Kodat
Arts in Society

Not Your Father’s Formalism

Three new collections of poetry. 

  • Rafael Campo
Philosophy Politics

Time Out of Joint

Western dominance, Islamist terror, and the Arab imagination.

  • Sadiq J. Al-Azm
Arts in Society Race

The Devil and Henry Dumas

A lost voice of the Black Arts Movement.

  • Scott Saul
Arts in Society

The Red Clock

A short story. 

  • Maile Chapman

Sign up for our newsletter

Arts in Society Science

Streaming Poetry

Tan Lin's BlipSoak01.

  • Brian Kim Stefans
Arts in Society

Review: Fleet River

By James Longenbach.

  • Robert Schnall
Arts in Society

The Happy Place

On Walt Kelly’s Pogo.

  • John Crowley
Arts in Society

American Legacy

On writing The Vagabonds.

  • Nicholas Delbanco
Arts in Society

Lawless

Bad Education, directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

  • Alan A. Stone
Arts in Society

Harder to See

Reading the Illegible by Craig Dworkin.

  • Jacques Khalip
Arts in Society

Review: Little Savage

By Emily Fragos.

  • Kathleen Rooney
Arts in Society

Review: Columbarium

By Susan Stewart.

  • Nadia Herman Colburn
Arts in Society

Shipfitters

  • Allen Grossman
Politics

How Can the Democrats Win?

Democrats must embrace an economic liberalism superjumbo, and they must stick with it even if they lose.

  • Rick Perlstein
with responses from
  • William A. Galston
  • Adolph Reed Jr.
  • Ruy Teixeira
  • Dan Carol
  • Daniel Cantor
  • Robert B. Reich
  • Michael C. Dawson
  • Elaine Kamarck
  • Richard Delgado
  • Stanley Aronowitz
  • Philip Klinker
  • Larry M. Bartels
Law Politics

Russia’s Quagmire

On ending the standoff in Chechnya.

  • Rajan Menon
Law Politics

Body of the Nation

Why women were mutliated in Gujarat.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum
Politics

The Chameleon

Does Joschka Fischer really believe in anything?

  • Paul Hockenos
Arts in Society

Flight

A short story. 

  • Ishle Yi Park
Arts in Society

Photographing Cruelty

In the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the weapon of choice was not the gun but the spectacle of public shaming.

  • Susie Linfield
Politics

Reading China

What American conventional wisdom gets wrong.

  • Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Arts in Society

Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn

Reading Harvey Swados.

  • Grace Paley
Arts in Society

The Secret Lives of Men

Pat Barker's ambitious project.

  • James Hynes
trending_flat
Get our newsletter

Vital reading on politics, ideas, and culture to your inbox

A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975

Registered 501(c)(3) organization

Help Us Stay Paywall-Free

Donate

Become a Member

Subscribe