It’s tempting to blame social media for our epistemic crisis. The truth is more complicated, and more uncomfortable

The uses of anthropomorphism. We often misinterpret animal emotion, but denying their emotions is also a category error

Geoff Dyer has made a literary career out of humorous high jinks and stylistic experimentation. His latest work departs from...

What happens if you splice, slice, and rearrange 121 Lewis Lapham essays? You distill the Laphamian vernacular

"The real irony of graduating from an M.F.A. program is that one’s success as a writer has very little, if...

“Unalive,” “grape,” “You’re so skibidi…” The literary innovations of Gen Alpha have arrived — and are driven, unfortunately, by influencers

What counts as freedom for women? That question animated Louisa May Alcott, one of our greatest feminist theorists of labor

For Christopher Lasch, sloppy writing was a form of sloth, and ambiguity was a form of lying. In other words,...