Books & Ideas

World Tumbling Into World

Dan Beachy-Quick’s A Whaler’s Dictionary and This Nest, Swift Passerine.

  • BK Fischer

Edit This Page

Is the end of Wikipedia near?

  • Evgeny Morozov

Review: Orpheus in the Bronx

By Reginald Shepherd.

  • Robert Schnall

Accidental Billionaire

How do we decide what is individual talent and what is luck?

  • Claude S. Fischer

Fateful Gates

The lives of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

  • Roger Boylan

The Collaborator

On the writings of V. S. Naipaul.

  • James Wallenstein

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After Ariel

Celebrating the poetry of the women’s movement.

  • Honor Moore

What Country Is This?

Rereading LeRoi Jones’s The Dead Lecturer.

  • Adrienne Rich

Song and Silence

My Fanny Howe

  • Maureen N. McLane

Fighting Words

Lyn Hejinian's Saga/Circus

  • Joyelle McSweeney

Love Letters

The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

  • Cecily Parks

Water Damage

Two new collections challenge lyric's decorum.

  • Amelia Klein

Revelation

Readers of Barbara Guest should receive the publication of her Collected Poems with joy and relief.

  • Brian Teare

God

Philosophers weigh in.

  • Alex Byrne

Worldmaker

Remembering Thomas Disch.

  • John Crowley

Poison Flow

Edward St. Aubyn takes on the English upper class.

  • Neel Mukherjee

The Good Life

According to both a new book and the United Nations’ Human Development Index, the good life is about three things: living long, going to school, and being wealthy.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Not Free at Any Price

Why I switched to the One Laptop Per Child—and why I dropped it.

  • Richard M. Stallman

Bad News

Authenticity and the South Asian political novel.

  • Amitava Kumar

Uproars

Leslie Epstein’s magic.

  • John Crowley

The Party’s Over

Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam attempt to provide a blueprint to save Republican politics from wholesale collapse.

  • Lew Daly

Demon Doubt

An interview with Vivian Gornick.

  • Vivian Gornick
  • Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Fault Lines

Inside Rumsfeld’s Pentagon.

  • Andrew J. Bacevich

The Gunslinger

John Bolton will turn U.S. foreign policy back to the unilateralism of Bush’s first term, when the war on terror meant never having to say you’re sorry.

  • Stephen John Stedman
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