The goodies include everything from enchanting book nook decorations to ethereal crystal night lights and dragon bookmarks.

• Book Riot
• 1 gün, 23 saat, 4 dakika

In its efforts to define religion, modern sociology has also sought to define itself.

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika

After open-heart surgery

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika

The MAGA movement is not fed by conservative ideas but by a nihilistic, apocalyptic determination to stage a counterrevolution against the Sixties, against liberalism, against even democracy itself.

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika

A nineteenth-century novella daringly suggests that there’s no reason the apparently contradictory theories of creationism and evolutionism can’t be reconciled.

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika

Rich Beck’s Homeland charts how four presidential administrations managed to evade moral responsibility for the “war on terror” by hiding behind legality and process.

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika

Early modern female writers, who were denied the sort of authority usually needed to write literary criticism, were also freed from its constraints.

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika

Museum Visit: A Maira Kalman painting of Alfred Dreyfus

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika

I met a devil at the crossroads. We struck no bargain but walked, arm in arm, westward, for slow miles as starlings flocked. It steadied me, and little by little into that warmth I spilled my soul. That was some time ago, and now when I try to remember how I got away the story […]

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika

In a 1966 interview, Marcel Duchamp remarked on the propensity of twentieth-century artists to pair up. He gave the examples of Picasso and Braque, Delaunay and Léger, and himself and Picabia—“although,” he added, “Picabia-Duchamp is a strange match. A sort of artistic pederasty. Between two people one arrives at a very stimulating exchange of ideas.” […]

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika

The correspondence of Guy Davenport is a syllabus for the twentieth century.

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika

The poem as trick pony rooting in a feed bag full of truth The poem as wonder cabinet stocked with whatever was close at hand The poem as celestial tinnitus, transmissible as sniffles The poem as a bottomless measuring spoon dunked in a sea that drains into it endlessly That sea a lunar sea of […]

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika

How did Saint Augustine’s African origins and his life among Christians there shape his theology?

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika

Mason Bates’s operatic adaptation of Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay condenses the encyclopedic novel into a story about two outsiders caught between the harsh reality of World War II and their success as creators of a comic book superhero.

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika

Can the tools of science be used to investigate the mysteries of death?

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika

Tessa Hadley’s greatest subject is the unfulfilled promise of womanhood.

• The New York Review of Books
• 2 gün, 3 saat, 4 dakika