A Tribute to Washington Irving
From City Journal
Topic
Biography
A collection of 123 issues
Dreiser, Cather, Stevens
From The Tablet
‘Metaphysical Animals’ and ‘The Women Are Up to Something’: A Philosophy of Their Own
From the Wall Street Journal
Joseph Epstein's Four Volumes of Mini-Biographies
Joseph Epstein's four volumes of literary mini-biographies:
Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing (1985)
Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives (1989)
Pertinent Players: Essays on the Literary Life (1993)
Life Sentences: Literary Essays (1997)
Why Joseph Smith Matters
From The Marginalia Review
Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter Turns One Hundred
From Plough
Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge Anticipated Iain McGilchrist's Hemisphere Hypothesis
A few notes (a half-baked short essay) about the Hungarian chemist/philosopher and the English psychiatrist/philosopher
Who is Sohrab Ahmari?
From Ouillette
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
From The Worthy House
Was Descartes Nuts?
The Cartesian view of the world adopts a stance normally found only in patients suffering from schizophrenia.
Referring to a famous passage from the Meditations on First Philosophy in which Descartes describes looking out of his window and seeing what he knows to be people passing by as seeming to