The Approach to J.L. Borges
Consider just how bizarre fiction is.
American Literature and the Liberal Way of Life
A renewed attention to the American literary tradition may be one of the most important imaginative and spiritual exercises for restoring our liberal way of life.
Shakespeare the Suicide?
Shakespeare’s plays are full of suicides, some noble, others not very.
Olympus Agonistes
by
Ed Simon
Posted on November 19, 2024
Image: The Triumph of Galatea, 1511, by Raphael (1583–1620); Villa Farnesina; via Wikimedia Commons; public domain in the United States.
War, Death, and Intellectualism
Posted on November 13, 2024
Image: THR illustration; letters between Freud and Einstein; the Romanian campaign, World War I/Alamy Stock Photo.
Intellectualism’s core activity is analysis—investigating how and why certain occurrences take place around us.
Stories to Live By
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on November 4, 2024
Image: Joan Didion, c. 1977; Everett Collection, Inc./Alamy Stock Photo.
If politics is your life, then you must tell yourself a political story in order to live.
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