What power preserves what once was, if memory does not last?
ESSAYS WORTH REMBMBERING
William Friedken in T Magazine - In Search of Marcel Proust
Richard Kearney in LARB - The World Coming At Us Backward
Josh Rothman in The New Yorker - Rod Dreher's Monastic Vision
Jon Baskin in The Nation - In the Sick-Box
Meghan O'Gieblyn in n+1 - Ghosts in the Cloud
Barrett Swanson in the New York Times - Pistol Pete's Homework Basketball
Tony Judt in The New York Review of Books- Captive Minds Now and Then
Sheila Liming in The Point - In Praise of Not Not Reading
Andrew Kay in The Point - Pilgrim at Tinder Creek
Jon Baskin in the Chronicle of Higher Education - The Man Against Everything
William Corbett in The Paris Review - The Moviegoer: An Interview with Fanny Howe
Sylvain Bormeau in The Paris Review - Scare Tactics: Michel Houellebecq Defends His Controversial New Book
Merve Emre in Public Books - The Ferrante Paradox
Zadie Smith in The New York Review of Books - On Optimism and Despair
Kathryn Lofton in The Point - Understanding is Dangerous
Peter Gordon in the New York Review of Books - Kierkegaard's Rebellion
Jeffery Eugenides in T Magazine - The Pieces of Zadie Smith
Will Rees in the Times Literary Supplement - Cruel Intentions: Searching for Kierkegaard
Zena Hitz in the Washington Post – What is A Safe Space? The Mind of A Student Able to Think Critically
The Editors at The Point – On Political Fiction
Alan Jacobs in Harper’s – The Watchmen
Jacob Mikanowski in The Point – Camera Phone Lucida
Joseph E. Davis in The Hedgehog Review – The Young and the Uneasy
Paul Gleason in The Point - The Wildness of Things
Samuel Cooper and John Sherer in The Point - Sensitive Subjects
Ted O'Neill in The Point - Admissions Failure
Jon Baskin in The Nation - Don DeLillo's American Dream
Alexsandar Hemon in Lit Hub - Why I Didn't Sign the Open Letter Against Donald Trump
Edward Mendelson in The New York Review of Books - In the Depths of the Digital Age
Michael Henry Adams in The New York Times - The End of Black Harlem
Nathan Rich in The New York Review of Books - James Baldwin and the Fear of the Nation
Nicholas Haramis in T Magazine - Perfect Strangers: When Chelsea Handler Met Leon Wieseltier
Terry Eagleton in Commonweal- The Hubris of Culture and the Limits of Identity Politics
Zena Hitz in First Things - Freedom and Intellectual Life
Nathan Heller in The New Yorker - Welcome to the Future: Middle Class Housing Projects
Thomas Frank in The American Conservative - The Blue State Model
The Editors at Commonweal - What Some Protestors Don't Understand
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in The Telegraph - We Are Facing an Unprecedented Age of Terror
Jake Bittle in The Point - Fear and Loathing
Jamie K.A. Smith in USA Today - Clinton, Sanders Miss the Point on Student Debt
Leon Wieseltier in The Atlantic - A.O. Scott, Critic Without a Cause
Andrew Bacevich in Commonweal – New Nukes?
Lisa Ruddick in The Point - When Nothing is Cool
Alan Jacobs in The American Conservative - Compassion and the Humanities
Karl Ove Knausgaard in The New York Times – On the Brink: Review of Michael Houellebecq’s Submission
Ross Douthat in The New York Times - A Crisis Our Universities Deserve
Jonathan MacDaniel in The Point - Himself
Simon Kuper in Financial Times – The Global Elite is Taking Over Sport
Ruth Graham in Slate - Jonathan Franzen Called a “Great Song”...
Ekow N. Yankah in New Yorker – Why NCAA Athletes Shouldn't Be Paid
Jon Baskin in The Nation - Jonathan Franzen Withdraws
Rowan Williams in Commonweal - Embracing Our Limits; The Lesson’s of Laudato Si’
- David Mikics in The Nation - The Flow of Life; is Saul Bellow the essential American Novelist...?
- Walter Isaacson in The New York Times - Walker Percy's Theory of Hurricanes
- Goodwell Nzou in The New York Times - In Zimbabwe, We Don't Cry for Lions
- Chase Woodruff in 8 by 8 - Among the Brands
- Bill Lattanzi in Medium - Closer to Dave; The "Infinite Jest" Effect
- Anna Scechtman in LA Review of Books - David Foster Wallace's Closed Circuit
- Alan Jacobs in Hedgehog Review - The Witness of Literature: A Genealogical Sketch
- Jake Bittle in The Point - Paper Chasing
- Robert Wuthnow in First Things - In Polls We Trust
- Ian Beackock in Aeon - Humanists Among Machines; Why We Need Arnold Toynbee's Muscular Humanism
- Adam Gopnik in New Yorker - When A Bookstore Closes an Argument Ends
- Jon Baskin in The Point - Out of Good Reasons
- J.C. Hallman in The Baffler - The Monk Retires; Letting go of Philip Roth
- Meghan O'Gieblyn in The Boston Review - The End
- Jesse McCarthy in The Point - Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?
- Catherine Woodiwiss - A New Normal: Ten Things I've Learned About Trauma
- Ross Douthat in The New York Times - The Case For Old Ideas
- Leon Wieseltier in The New Republic - Reason and the Republic of Opinion
- Sue Halpern in The New York Review of Books - The Creepy New Wave of the Internet
- David Brooks in The New York Times - Our Machine Masters
- Paul Krugman in The New York Times - Amazon's Monopoly is Not O.K.
- Peter Gordon in The New York Review of Books - Heidegger in Black
- Isaiah Berlin in The New York Review of Books - A Message to the 21st Century
- Jon Baskin in The Point Magazine - Adult Conversation
- David Brooks in The New York Times - The Art of Presence
- Mark Edmundson in The Chronicle - When I Was Young at Yale