Weird Science

A Private Gentleman: On “The Trials of Harry S. Truman”

Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History

Mapping the Wander Lines: The Quiet Revelations of Fernand Deligny (2015)

On Cat Pictures

The Sleep of Reason Produces Cats

To the Grave: Secrets, Sins, and Nuclear Insecurity

What If?: New Insight into the Friendship of Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot

Tracing Octavia Butler’s footsteps

Living in the World: Peter Brooks on Balzac

The Truth Shall Make You Free: Catholicism and the CIA

The Way Out of the Fly-Bottle: Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus” at 100

The California Life of Czesław Miłosz

Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook

Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated

The Invention of “Xenophobia”

The “Decline and Fall” of Rome – A Dangerous Idea?

Haunted by Houses: On the California Victorian in Fiction

“Logic Alone, All Love Laid By”: Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon” (2019)

Typical Gemini: On the “Selected Poetry” of Alexander Pushkin

A New Look at the Hobo

Descartes’s Evil Genius

At Shul, We Drink Single Malt: On “A Fortress in Brooklyn”

“Flipping” the History of Literary Studies

Brave New LA: Aldous Huxley in Los Angeles (2013)

Archival Futures: The Archive as a Place and the Place of the Archive

The Quiet Mysticism of Almanacs

Shadows Walking: With Wallace Stevens in New Haven

Cats and the Good Life

Horrible Sanity: An Edgar Allan Poe for Our Time

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