Books & Ideas

Who Owns Bruno Schulz?

Poland stumbles over its Jewish past.

  • Benjamin Paloff

What Went Wrong

Why the United States must resist the impulse to remake entire societies, particularly through military might.

  • Rajan Menon

Rich World, Poor World

On Francis Fukuyama’s State-Building.

  • Mick Moore

Lost Opportunities

Without Oslo, Israelis and Palestinians would not have been as committed to a two-state solution as they are today.

  • Jeremy Pressman

Master of the Same New Things

On Richard Howard.

  • James Longenbach

Necessary Truths

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

  • Alex Byrne
  • Ned Hall

Sign up for our newsletter

High Art in Low Times

Two new books on the cultural Cold War.

  • Catherine Gunther Kodat

Not Your Father’s Formalism

Three new collections of poetry. 

  • Rafael Campo

The Happy Place

On Walt Kelly’s Pogo.

  • John Crowley

American Legacy

On writing The Vagabonds.

  • Nicholas Delbanco

Harder to See

Reading the Illegible by Craig Dworkin.

  • Jacques Khalip

The Secret Lives of Men

Pat Barker's ambitious project.

  • James Hynes

Letters

End of the Wild

The extinction crisis is over. We lost.

  • Stephen M. Meyer

Reading Your Mind

How our brains help us understand other people.

  • Rebecca Saxe

The Chosen People

Rather than apologizing for the Jewish tradition or putting it on a pedestal, The Jewish Political Tradition stresses its living and agonistic character.

  • Hilary Putnam

The Lost Ones

John Banville's existentialist novels.

  • Roger Boylan

A Lunatic Faith

Writing an epistolary novel. 

  • Elisabeth Robinson

Letters: February/March 2004

Making the Mind

Why we’ve misunderstood the nature-nurture debate.

  • Gary Marcus

Mirage or No Mirage

Reading Los Angeles.

  • Scott Saul

The End of Sociology?

The tradition by which public intellectuals hope to resurrect sociology asks compelling questions

  • John H. Summers

Conrad’s List

Working at the Eighth Street Bookshop in Greenwich Village.

  • M.G. Stephens

Tragedy and Justice

Bernard Williams remembered

  • Martha C. Nussbaum
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