9+ hour, 13+ min ago  (369+ words) In some ways, his circumstances are not unique on the island: each semester at the UPR, an always complicated noncurricular topic is the looming future. Can I stay? Most desire to do so, but there is little opportunity. What can…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (214+ words) WHAT DID PEOPLE in China do to celebrate the 2026 Lunar New Year, the year of the fire horse? This year, besides the usual activities'sharing meals, playing mah-jongg, gifting red envelopes, gathering to watch the CCTV Spring Festival Gala'there was another…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (177+ words) Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist by David Bather Woods. University of Chicago Press, 2026. 296 pages. Buy on Bookshop. org Bruce Krajewski is the translator and editor of Salomo Friedlaender's Kant for Children (De Gruyter, 2024), for which…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (135+ words) Transcription by Ben Lerner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026. 144 pages. Buy on Bookshop. org Sarah Mc Eachern is a reader and writer in Brooklyn, New York. Some of her recent writing has been published by the Ploughshares Blog, BOMB, The Believer,…...

5+ day, 57+ min ago  (149+ words) The Threshold and the Ledger by Tom Mc Carthy. Notting Hill Editions, 2025. 80 pages. Buy on Bookshop. org Ian Ellison is the postdoctoral research associate on the Kafka's Transformative Communities project at the University of Oxford and a visiting fellow of…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1407+ words) I needn't have worried; my anxieties turned out to be no match for Tuymans's skill at distilling a question down to its essence. We discussed painting, politics, and what it means to seek reality and rationality in a country that…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (975+ words) Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Ballantine Books, 2021. 496 pages. Buy on Bookshop. org This interview is part of The Rules We Live By, a series devoted to asking what it means to be a human living by an ever-evolving set…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (164+ words) Erda" G'knar is associate professor of Turkish studies at Duke. He is the award-winning English translator of Orhan Pamuk's novel My Name Is Red (Knopf, 2001), the author of Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel (Routledge,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (754+ words) Living with Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial by Manon Garcia. Translated by Maya B. Kronic. Polity, 2025. 208 pages. Buy on Bookshop. org "[S]INCE I BEGAN to attend the trial, going home has become harder," admits philosopher Manon Garcia near the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (295+ words) Unlearning with Translation: A Critical and Collective Practice by Virginie Bobin. Sternberg Press, 2026. 152 pages. HOW ARE OUR LIVES shaped and our worlds made by the languages we encounter every day? When we understand language to be a historical and material…...