- In the artillery trenches of the first World War, a German Jew named Franz Rosenzweig began to create an audacious philosophical system [70hr]
- António Lobo Antunes, the Portuguese novelist who captured his generation’s disillusionment with the war, is dead. He was 83 [70hr]
- Shulamith Firestone’s fundamental battle is with the grip which normalcy and conformity have on every human life [70hr]
- An Emerson for our times? Terry Tempest Williams’s “epic documentation of the Glorians” is full of celestial beings and desert miracles [94hr]
- He championed Joyce, mentored Eliot, and broadcast fascist propaganda. Ezra Pound was indispensable as an artist and irredeemable as a man [94hr]
- Counterculture prophet, Whole Earth cataloguer, proto-internet evangelist, Stewart Brand has a new obsession: maintenance [94hr]
- Shut out of plum positions because of his political sins, Malcolm Cowley became a triple-threat hired gun: reporting, reviewing, editing [118hr]
- Adam Phillips: "Psychoanalysis is not better than aromatherapy or worse than neurology, it’s simply something for people who find it intriguing" [118hr]
- Bolster civil discourse and the Great Books, or purge “commies”? The right is at war with itself over how to reform the university [118hr]
- College students’ sense of meaning and purpose is internet-based and transactional. For them, the campus is a hustler’s paradise [142hr]
- In 2013 Mary Gaitskill told students to “Go home and look between your legs and tell me if that is a social construct.” All hell broke loose [142hr]
- Harold Bloom made academics wince and general readers swoon. The asymmetry was the point [142hr]
- Our dreams are our own — or are they? Meet the researchers behind the new science of TDI: targeted dream incubation [166hr]
- In 2002, the college essay was declared dead. More than three years and hundreds of billions of dollars later, the college essay lives [166hr]
- A cow carcass, buckets of blood, poisoned dogs: A lot of death went into the making of Chaim Soutine’s art [166hr]