Very sad, and improbably poignant, news from France: philosopher and psychoanalyst Anne Dufourmantelle has died. Dufourmantelle, fifty-three, was the author of more than twenty books, some of them co-written with Jacques Derrida,… Read more »

Oh, hi. How was your weekend? Well you look terrific. Rested. Ready for another run of holding up and getting by, seven more days living under a president who’s basically… Read more »

The world’s a mess, and it’s a fine time to be wishing a happy seventy-fifth birthday to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, writer, theorist, translator, activist, and noted rocker of saris and… Read more »

What I meant by American here — maybe my use of the word was a bit abusive…. The abusive use was about the utilitarian, manipulative attitude: “Okay, I need this—do… Read more »

Today, October 9th, is the tenth anniversary of the death of the French philosopher, and inventor of deconstructionism, Jacques Derrida. Princeton University has decided to celebrate, or memorialize the theorist… Read more »

Where is the art of handwriting going? Or has it already gone? Philip Hensher, critic and novelist, has written a new book, The Missing Ink, on the decline of handwriting, as… Read more »

Starting a new series design is always a fun challenge—each book in the series needs to stand on its own, but the set should add up to more than the… Read more »