The Last Cigarette: Cinema’s most seductive prop

The Birth of the Egghead Paperback

The Story of a Stare Down

The New Old Way of Learning Languages (2008)

Kerouac and Buddhism

Meeting of Romantic Minds

‘Not’ and its many permutations

Mad Dogs and Transcendentalists

Poet of the Extreme

At the Corner of Byron and Shelley

Lessons in Abstraction: The strange life of Europe’s most overlooked modernist

A crash course on our boundlessly bizarre universe

Warrior Eros

If you frame it like that (2020)

Things Left Behind

Obscura No More

Poetry in the Abstract: What happens when scientists write haiku?

Jacques Barzun and Friend

Order Amid Chaos: A poet-scientist considers the imponderables of existence

Writing English as a Second Language (2009)

Satirist to the Galaxy

How to Live with Dying

Art After the Plague: How painters through the ages have responded to contagion

A Pioneering Appetite

Words Preserved Against a Day of Fear: Remembering Joseph Brodsky

Mysterious Inheritance: A new biography of J.B.S. Haldane

No Ghost in the Machine

Nationalist Anthems: Remembering a time when composers mattered more

Head Cases

He Contained Multitudes

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