When the world’s Jews gather to celebrate Passover this Wednesday night, our seder tables will be uncannily...
J.L. Wall
J.L. Wall is a native Kentuckian in self-imposed exile to the Midwest, where he teaches writing to college students and over-analyzes Leonard Cohen lyrics.
Don't let the fact that these aren't your institutions convince you to look away from the scandal....
How Christopher Beha's satire of celebrity culture creates space for the human in technology's panopticon
Remembering and reading Philip Roth in 2018.
The parishes around Baton Rouge are underwater from a thousand-year rain and the flooding that's followed.
The late Elie Wiesel spent his life telling stories -- just not the kind he's known for.
In her essays, the award-winning novelist examines the significance, past, present, and future, of America's missing Religious...
Slavery, like the past, isn’t past. It ain’t even dead yet.
A poem for Paris.
What do anthologies do to the experience of reading poetry? And what makes a poem a...
J.L. Wall explores the duality of Atticus Finch as portrayed in both the newly-released Go Set A...
The Paris Review endorses Maddie Crum’s “One Perfect Book for Every Single Myers-Briggs Type.” Like all Myers-Briggs...
How the rise of “Amazon Art” and CSAs for local artists extends earlier business models—and how each...
"Mad Men" isn't stagnating -- it's rejecting easy character arcs.
If you need to laugh this morning, Alan Jacobs has you taken care of with his graphic...
On July 3, the New York Times announced its possession of “VERY IMPORTANT NEWS: Further Particulars of...
At the beginning of July, 1863, Union newspapers were abuzz with reports of Lee’s invasion. Headlines in...
Ta-Nehisi Coates takes the time to respond, with historical data, to the those who would claim the...
I wish I could offer a fuller response to the post Christopher’s “Sunday Morning Atheism.” He raised,...
Several months ago, Rod Dreher, responding to several commenters on his blog, wondered whether a decline of...
