Good Reads

Literary Arts
from The Futurist Moment
Marjorie Perloff
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Pierre Bayard
Getting Over Sylvia Plath
Christopher Benfey
Farther Away
Jonathan Franzen
The Creative Process
James Baldwin
Modern Life
Shipping Out
David Foster Wallace
The Comfort Zone - Growing up with Charlie Brown
Jonathan Franzen
Faking It
Michael Lewis
The Lie Factory
Jill Lepore
History
Ur-Fascism
Umberto Eco
1491
Charles C. Mann
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
Richard Hofstadter
Gender Issues
The End of Men
Hanna Rosin
Linguistics
The Kekulé Problem
Cormac McCarthy
What's the language of the future?
Henry Hitchings
A Linguistic Big Bang
Lawrence Osborne
Politics and the English Language
George Orwell
Aesthetics
Circles and Squares
Pauline Kael
One more time
Elizabelth Hellmuth Margulis
Inhaling the Spore
Lawrence Weschler
Double Vision: The Art of Trevor and Ryan Oakes
Lawrence Weschler
Philosophy
Existentialism is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre
On the Pathos of Truth
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Unreliability of Naive Introspection
Eric Schwitzgebel
Madness, the absence of an œuvre
Michel Foucault
Review of Philip Kitcher's 'The Ethical Project'
Ron Mallon
What is it like to be a bat?
Thomas Nagel
Social Change
A reply to the Poet: Tagore
Mahatma Gandhi
The Opening of the Library
W. E. B. Du Bois
Anthropology
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
Jared Diamond
The Place to Disappear
Susan Orlean
Environment
The New Abolitionism
Christopher Hayes
Violence of the Lambs
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Pigeon Wars
Jon Mooallem
Economics
The Melting Away of North Atlantic Social Democracy
J. Bradford Delong
To Have Is to Owe
David Graeber
Money: The Real Truth About Money
Gregg Easterbrook
Quitting the Paint Factory
Mark Slouka
Shop Class as Soulcraft
Matthew B. Crawford