Brian Leiter examines Friedrich Nietzsche's views on what makes life worth living.

One of the great American authors, Philip Roth, has died aged 85. The Pulitzer, National Book Award and Man Booker International Prize-winning novelist's work drew its inspiration from Jewish family life, sex and American ideals. His works included American Pastoral, I Married a Communist and Portnoy's Complaint.

Mississippi, murder, and William Eggleston’s “Red Ceiling.” By Will Stephenson

The daring exploits and beguiling charm of the 20th century’s greatest travel writer. By Dominic Green.

Steven Nadler on Spinoza.

Gary Saul Morson on On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Idiot.”

Getting lost in the text-cities of Joyce, Döblin, and Dos Passos. By Tyler Malone.

"There is, however, a greater reason for one to feel uneasy about discussing these matters in public; and it’s not only your own natural reluctance to regard your young selves as potential victims." By Joseph Brodsky. (Aug. 16, 1984)

In 1931, she sought to publish an important piece of American history. Instead that oral history languished in a vault. Until now.

The covert and overt sins of a celebrated scholar. By Kevin Williamson.

Alexander Dugin wants a left-right alliance against liberalism — and urged Russia to meddle in Western politics. By Conor Lynch.

Timothy Snyder doesn’t like Donald Trump. Really, really doesn’t like him. By Paul Robinson.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Spiritualism. By John Rabon.

History tells us he invented modern philosophy. That history is wrong. By Christia Mercer. (Sept. 25, 2017)

In a world where our time and attention are fractured into smaller and smaller bits, legendary biologist and runner Bernd Heinrich is a throwback, a man who has carved a deep groove in his patch of Maine woods. By Bill Donahue. (Dec 15, 2017)

Donald S. Lopez, Jr. looks at Voltaire's early reflections on Buddhism and how, in his desire to separate the Buddha's teachings from the trappings of religion, the French Enlightenment thinker prefigured an approach now familiar in the West.

It is imperative to ask why and how this obscure Canadian academic, who insists that gender and class hierarchies are ordained by nature and validated by science, has suddenly come to be hailed as the West’s most influential public intellectual. By Pankaj Mishra.

Opening the FBI file on James Baldwin. By James Campbell.

One of France’s most influential contemporary thinkers, Marcel Gauchet manages to craft a compelling historical account of half a millennium, exploring how we arrived at today's crisis—and how we might get out. By Michael C. Behrent.

Jordan Peterson’s popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape... By Nathan J. Robinson.