Making Sense of Sylvia Plath’s Final Act
Plath felt that marriage and children were the necessary but insufficient condition of her continued creativity.
At the Heart of Don Quixote
by
James Como
Posted on November 6, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: A conversation between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Plaza de España, Seville, Alamy; background: the novel appears for sale for ten reales on this bookshop inventory from the seventeenth century, artsandculture.google.com.
All the adventures were tests, but not of the Don’s courage. Rather, they were tests of friendship, pure and simple.
The Amoeba and the Mathematician
Posted on October 29, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: Vitalii Borkovskyi/Shutterstock.
By over-specializing, professionals have unwittingly shrunk their job duties to fit inside a machine’s scope of practice.
Simone Weil Against Distraction
by
April Owens
Posted on October 22, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration: Simone Weil, Ewa Klos, Agence Opale/Alamy; background: Shutterstock.
For Simone Weil, attention was akin to prayer.
Chatbots and the Divine
Posted on October 15, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Shutterstock.
We get nowhere near knowing, much less loving, another person through impersonal means.
Liberal Society Isn’t for Everyone
Our society needs a certain kind of person and our society shapes a certain kind of person. How to align the two?
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