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GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS a headspace and a technology--as much an event playing out in our minds as it is a material reality emerging at our fingertips. Fast and fluent, [...]

Realism Confronts Utopia Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter Gary Saul Morson Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. Announcing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's selection [...]

The Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848-1898 Dominic Green New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. Having already recounted God's life through popular biographies of Jesus and [...]

George Steiner was called many things across his lengthy writing career--sage, pedant, philosopher, snob, the last great European intellectual, a 'mimic' staging a decades-long 'impression of the world's most learned [...]

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Shoshana Zuboff New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2019. Consider four news stories from the [...]

The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 Ritchie Robertson New York, NY: Harper, 2021. What is happiness? Every era has entertained this question. Yet as Ritchie Robertson, Taylor Professor of [...]

There's no shortage of debate about friendship. --Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 8.1.33 (1) COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE DECLINE OF friendship have become a staple of conversation in our digital times. But before [...]

In 2012, the Pew Research Center announced that the average eigh teen-to-twenty-four-year-old American smartphone user sent sixty text messages per day, up from the fifty the same demographic cohort dispatched [...]

'The odd thing about paper is that we still use it. The stuff should be obsolete, a quaint, medieval anachronism, replaced by new information technologies like the personal computer. Yet [...]

Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age Sven Birkerts Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2015. The Sven Birkerts of Changing the Subject, a collection of sixteen essays, is [...]

The critic John Sutherland once observed that private book collections can become for their assemblers 'intimate parts of themselves.' As an example, he cited John Keats's arrangements for the posthumous [...]

The article focuses on William St Clair's insights into the Romantic-era publishing scene, emphasizing the vast consumption of Walter Scott and Lord Byron, the profitability of printing English literature's greatest hits, and the prevalence of reprints in the reading nation. Casie LeGette's "Remaking Romanticism" builds upon St Clair's approach, exploring the politically radical press and its role in reshaping Romanticism.