Faulkner as Futurist
Faulkner’s treatment of the past means much for the nature of our future.
Closing Time
by
Clare Coffey
Posted on June 4, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Drug addict on London street; Jeff Gilbert/Alamy Stock Photo.
Two new books discuss the extremes of the American economy.
The Uniqueness of the Here and Now
Posted on June 2, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Walter Benjamin and Patti Smith.
The solitude of sickness is not a waste of time but rather a compression of it, a bundle the size of a pill bottle.
The Price of Freedom
Posted on May 21, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: A grocery store cashier in Stamford, Connecticut; Tyler Sizemore, Connecticut Magazine.
The point of reopening is not to free voluntary workers but to place more into the category of “mandatory worker.”
Against Projection; For Promise
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on May 20, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Illustration by Grandville from Gulliver’s Travels, 1842; Biblioteca Ambrosiana.
To make promises, to stand by one words, to be answerable for them, is to open oneself to blame.
Healthy, Wealthy, or Wise?
Posted on May 18, 2020
in THR Web Features
Image: Bust of Aristotle (St. Petersburg, Summer Garden). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Aristotle and the pandemic debates we aren’t having.
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