The Men Who Made Theory French
Dayna Tortorici writes on Emily Eakin’s new book, a group biography of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Louis Althusser,…
Books
admin Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die
Nikhil Krishnan reviews “How to Kill a Language,” Sophia Smith Galer’s new book on global language loss.
The Lost Art of the Bromance
Katy Waldman writes on new books, films, and shows about male friendship, including “Jackass: Best and Last,” “DTF St. Louis,”…
A Dying Poet’s Farewell to the World
Dan Chiasson writes on “Axe in Blossom: Last Poems & Fragments,” a posthumous collection by the poet, who died, in…
How “Piss Christ” Became a Culture-War Bomb
Louis Menand reviews “The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America’s Culture Wars,” by Isaac Butler.
Something Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science
Dhruv Khullar writes about two new books—“Morbid,” by Saul Justin Newman, and “Eat Your Ice Cream,” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel—that…
How ACT UP Changed America
The defiant group of AIDS activists was itself riven by discord. Michael Specter on Sarah Schulman’s “Let the Record Show,”…
What’s the Point of Sex, Anyway?
Elizabeth Kolbert on “On the Origin of Sex,” by Lixing Sun; “The Sexual Evolution,” by Nathan H. Lents; and “Poking…
When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak?
Molly Fischer on new books by the historian Dylan Gottlieb and the Times reporters Noam Scheiber and Jodi Kantor that…
How Did American Christianity End Up Like This?
Michael Luo reviews Matthew Avery Sutton’s “Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity” and Brook Wilensky-Lanford’s “A…