Aeschylus's Oresteia is held up – again in spot-on fashion – as a template for an anti-humanist worldview: what matters is not the ind...

giftwrap

On The Casual Optimist, a Q&A with Peter Mendelsund and Tom McCarthy about the cover for McCarthy's new book, C DW: And were you fam...

parallel lines

Is this a crypto-reactionary step backwards towards humanism, sentimentalism, positivism and the whole gamut of bad isms that the vanguard 2...

McCarthyism de nos jours

Great interview of Tom McCarthy in the Believer . That said, McCarthy sometimes seems not to see his hand in front of his face. He says: TM...