California Road Trip

Matthew B. Crawford

A trip down the California coast has an aspect of memory and return to it.

I Sing the Electric Body

Brian Patrick Eha

To begin a sentence is to launch into the void and syntax plays a large role in how you will land.

The Analyst and the Bard

Anna Ballan

The Freudian stain upon the literary imagination cannot be rinsed away. What, then, is the proper relation between psychoanalysis and literature?

Over There

Jonathan Clarke

In glamorizing foreign travel, we sometimes neglect the near at hand.

Current Issue Current Issue: The Varieties of Travel Experience

The Varieties of Travel Experience

What is it that we want—what do we expect—from travel?


Of Continuing Interest

A selection of articles from the archives

Power in the Blood

Brad East

Blood as discourse in the Christian imagination.

Faulkner as Futurist

Carl Rollyson

For Faulkner, all of time existed as a moment, during which all could be changed: past, present, and future.

The Tragedy of the American Political Tradition

Nick Burns

What prospects are there today for assessing American politics and history from an early Hofstadterian remove?

Medical Humanities and the Specialist

Ronald W. Dworkin

Studying art taught me to think differently about medical procedures.