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HistoryFebruary 26, 2009
Lab Test: Who Profits From Scientific Research?
Does the profit motive distort and degrade the unpredictable path of scientific discovery?
William Deresiewicz
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December 17, 2008
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Literary CriticismNovember 19, 2008
How Wood Works: The Riches and Limits of James Wood
James Wood may be the best literary critic we have, but the status he enjoys reveals just how far we have fallen.
William Deresiewicz
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CultureOctober 21, 2008
Seeing Past the Ivy: Do Literary Mandarins Put Reading At Risk?
Why the commentariat's response to hand-wringing about "the decline of reading" condescends to the large mass of nonspecialist readers.
William Deresiewicz
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Books and IdeasSeptember 24, 2008
Homing Patterns: Marilynne Robinson’s Fiction
Marilynne Robinson's new novel explores faith, loneliness and the national passion play of race.
William Deresiewicz
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FictionAugust 27, 2008
Salman Rushdie’s Imaginative New ‘Enchantress of Florence’
Salman Rushdie probes the limits of the imagination to produce his most coherent and readable novel.
William Deresiewicz
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FictionMay 22, 2008
Dead Letters
Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig saw himself as a Freud of fiction--a fellow spelunker in the caverns of the heart.
William Deresiewicz
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CultureMarch 11, 2008
Professing Literature in 2008
Why is the intellectual agenda of English departments being set by teenagers?
William Deresiewicz
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FictionFebruary 7, 2008
Foes
J.M. Coetzee, now out with a new novel and a collection of essays, reminds us what a master he is at turning life into narrative.
William Deresiewicz
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FictionNovember 8, 2007
Fukú Americanus
Junot Díaz's masterful new novel maps the ambiguities in the modern immigrant experience in America.
William Deresiewicz