September 19, 2007
The Painless Peace of Twilight Sleep
When Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World was first published seventy-five years ago, the critical reception was...
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September 19, 2007
When Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World was first published seventy-five years ago, the critical reception was...
June 20, 2007
Today, despite America’s three-decades-long national War on Drugs, we are still in the midst of what many have...
June 20, 2007
Liza Mundy’s harrowing new book, Everything Conceivable, has the air of an exposé. Forget all those...
June 20, 2007
Steve Talbott’s new book Devices of the Soul is, first, a careful and illuminating examination of technological...
June 20, 2007
In 2001, Cambridge University Press published a book-length examination of environmental trends and other indicia of...
March 21, 2007
In the past half century, the practice of medicine has been radically transformed by new techniques and discoveries,...
March 21, 2007
In his invaluable Reader’s Manifesto, literary critic B. R. Myers, skewering current literary fads, offers a...
March 21, 2007
After the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, the great British economist John Maynard Keynes returned to Cambridge for...
March 21, 2007
In 2004, 17-year-old Kaavya Viswanathan signed a two-book deal with Little, Brown on the basis of a few drafted...
March 21, 2007
In The Flight from Reality, Ian Shapiro casts a critical eye upon important trends in the social sciences, political...