December 2020

hello to the unimaginative and dim ways of my kin, helloto the bad lot we are, to the women mean and plucked, and to the men...

To the extent that the German writer Peter Weiss is known in the US, it is for his verse play The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul...

In Fernanda Melchor’s story “La Casa del Estero,” from her collection Aquí no es Miami (2018), a group of friends spend the night in “la casa...

The historian Steve Mason has called The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus “perhaps the most influential non-biblical text of Western history.”* This may seem a surprising...

Just after Frank O’Hara’s untimely death in 1966, John Ashbery made a case for the poet’s enduring significance. In spite of only modest success during his...

In 1917, when Europe seemed to lie in ruins, Max Weber wrote an influential essay with the misleadingly dull title “Parliament and Government in a Reconstructed...

We are all Veblenians now. Our understanding of the way people’s acquisitions and activities advertise their superiority—not least in an era of Facebook show-offs and Instagrammable...

To the Editors: Readers of Noah Feldman’s insightful article on the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s influence on the current Supreme Court [“The Battle Over Scalia’s Legacy,”...

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