Below are the 50 most recent articles. You can view the entire archive by selecting one of the links to the left to view every post for a particular month or year, or to page through a particular section in reverse chronological order. If you're looking for something specific, the search feature is quite good as well.

December 2006

22: The Dying Animal

20: David Brin on Tribalism and Fear

20: Mendelsohn on Roth's Everyman

19: Waiting for the Barbarians

19: Richard Powers won the NBA

19: First Novels

19: Morgan Meis on Susan Sontag

18: Winter

17: Macbeth

16: Walking Out (2)

13: Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Lecture

13: More American than whom?

11: Nazi Channel

10: James Woods discusses Atheism

10: Scientists argue over religion

10: Natalie Angier's God Problem

10: Religion not particularly edifying

08: WG Sebald: Fathers and Sons

08: Elias Khoury

04: Walking Out

03: Wendy Kaminer channels J. S. Mill

02: Against the Day

02: Me Translate Pretty One Day

November 2006

27: Going Sane

25: Drop Dead

22: Orhan Pamuk, the Implied Author

22: Independent Bookshops

19: The Body

17: Eggers introduces Infinite Jest

14: Break it Down

14: Who Wants to Be a Cognitive Neuroscientist Millionaire?

13: A Turn in the South (alternate take)

12: A Turn in the South

11: The Little Disturbances of Man

10: Seamus Heaney, Digging with the Pen

10: Auster on stories and Fiction

10: Cary Grant's Suit

09: Let the oversight begin!

08: Offshore

08: Thank Goodness! says Daniel C Dennett

08: Old Humanist not a New Atheist

08: Religion from the Outside

08: The Crusade Against Religion

07: The Actual

06: Hiroshima Notes

06: Jane Jacobs Revisited

06: Updike on the End of Authorship

05: The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

04: Manila

03: Oppression in wartime