Pope Francis is a highly original and supple thinker, with a breadth of knowledge accumulated over five decades. A new book fleshes out his intellectual journey.
A new translation of The Enneads, the third-century cosmological poem by Plotinus, is likely to remain the definitive critical edition in English for years to come
In spite of all the ambition and selfishness that New York supposedly represents, I’ve found that the city’s density has encouraged me to forget myself.
Edmund White knew that writers were most compelling when exploring a subject they were of two minds about: when they could see it from one angle, then another.
Little of the critique mounted by Fountain qualifies as entirely original, but Fountain’s voice invests his testimony with an authority that commands respect
In an era of looming climate apocalypse and aimless elites, the Enlightenment has the potential to anchor projects of social emancipation and ecological sanity
In the second novel from one of the founding editors of n+1, readers travel to a country where the market is god, and the guy in charge is a crude thug
Contrary to long-held romantic narratives, Vampires haunted the most cutting-edge social, theological, political, and medical thinking in enlightened Europe
Why, despite advances in productivity, are so many of us still working such long hours at jobs that seem like they could disappear without anyone noticing?
A new book examines the origins of the pope-centered church, in which we assume that the bishop of Rome writes encyclicals, convokes councils, and declares saints
Matt Young’s retrospective look at his time as an enlisted Marine in an ongoing era of endless war is as darkly entertaining as it is crude and salacious
Tatyana Tolstaya is a formidable figure in Russian literary culture, and her dark, foreboding new collection of short stories defies conventional narrative forms
In its apprehension of a certain American mode of being, ‘Cloudbursts’ is an indispensable monument to slip alongside the work of John Cheever and Peter Taylor
