Mystic Without a Church Werner Herzogâs new memoir provides a look back on the magisterial and occasionally maddening career of a cinematic visionary. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 28 Mar 2024 · 17 min read
What Is the Labour Party For? Sir Keir Starmer looks likely to become Britainâs next prime minister at a time when the democratic centre-left everywhere is facing a crisis of definition. John Lloyd 26 Mar 2024 · 8 min read
A Moronic Inferno America First and the looming spectre of an illiberal international. Jeffrey Herf 19 Feb 2024 · 15 min read
Getting Better All the Time Hannah Ritchieâs new book offers reasons to be cheerful about the present and the future. Sean Welsh 15 Feb 2024 · 12 min read
Bestseller Reparations In âAmerican Fiction,â director Cord Jefferson brings a devil-may-care effrontery to bear on the culture of self-censorship, progressive pieties, and artistic hypocrisy. Thomas Larson 24 Jan 2024 · 7 min read
Master of Reality âThings were bleak, they really were. Yet nobody was singing about that side of life, which is why we thought we should.â George Case 22 Jan 2024 · 8 min read
A Historian for Our Moment Jeffrey Herf has made a scholarly commitment to document the words of Islamic Jew-hatred from their origins in Egypt and wartime Berlin. That has made him a lonely voice in the American professoriate. Sol Stern 10 Jan 2024 · 14 min read
A Dense Thicket of Contending Visions In his latest novel, Tom Piazza imagines the finest meeting of American minds never to have happened. Matt Hanson 7 Jan 2024 · 6 min read
Mutual Friends: The Adventures of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins A charming exhibition at Londonâs Charles Dickens Museum provides a fascinating glimpse into the private lives of two great English writers. Hannah Gal 11 Dec 2023 · 7 min read
The Pervertâs Guide to Philosophy Costin Alamariuâs (AKA Bronze Age Pervert's) doctoral dissertation is attracting a lot of interest but it doesnât add up to much. Oliver Traldi 25 Nov 2023 · 19 min read
Robert Sapolsky is Wrong A new book about free will fails to offer an original argument or make a convincing case. Stuart Doyle 6 Nov 2023 · 13 min read
Destiny of Earth Muthukrishnaâs new book presents a fundamentally optimistic narrative, brimming with ideas and concepts. Razib Khan 1 Nov 2023 · 6 min read
A Failure to Communicate Jeff Sharletâs new book is a stark and dispiriting dispatch from Trump country. Matt Hanson 30 Oct 2023 · 6 min read
An Eye for the Jugular A new documentary looks back on the life and work of satirist, novelist, and New Journalist, Tom Wolfe. Thomas Doherty 27 Oct 2023 · 11 min read
Shadows No More A new book examines Israelâs mounting campaign to check Iran. Brian Stewart 25 Oct 2023 · 7 min read
