Morals are the husband and wife of literature

My junior year at Brown, I was so unhappy that I dropped out. In Arizona, I met a man; and I read Middlemarch.

Neither does Greece, to judge by its government

Tracing the Bard’s debt to the French essayist Michel de Montaigne

No matter what Amy Poehler tells you

The extraordinary life of Simone de Beauvoir

We need policies that realign growth and equality

The story of the Warburg brothers

It helped define European anti-Semitism, especially when it came to Jewish music

Rebecca Solnit's 'Men Explain Things to Me' explains this international scourge

Mid-century Blues obsessives are getting a lot of attention lately

Myths may comfort us, but facts are our best weapon against Tea Party perversions

But she's not alone in reviving 70s-style fonts

This is what happens when you ignore the role of politics in intellectual history