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Illustration by Aaron Lowell Denton
Does It Hold Up?
Classic works, reconsidered
Illustration by Aaron Lowell Denton
Does It Hold Up?
Classic works, reconsidered
How Entertainment Mangled Public Discourse
Neil Postman’s jeremiad against TV seems rather quaint today—and not just because he was shouting into the wind and knew it.
Katha Pollitt
The Man Who Invented the “Psychopath”
Hervey Cleckley wanted to treat the most overlooked psychiatric patients. Instead his work was used to demonize them.
Camille Bromley
Jessica Mitford’s Escape From Fascism
“Hons and Rebels” might easily be mistaken for a freewheeling memoir of aristocratic life. It’s also a study of intense ideological conflict in a family.
Noah McCormack
Eric Hobsbawm’s Lament for the Twentieth Century
Where some celebrated the triumph of liberal capitalism in the 1990s, Hobsbawm saw a failed dream.
Patrick Iber