The Professor: Jill Lepore's Fatal Flaw
Get Real
The Revolution in Feeling
AT THE END of Stanley Corngold’s introduction to this new translation of Goethe’s great novel of romantic longing, a passage from J.M. Coetzee’s Youth is adduced to prove an eighteenth-century German classic’s relevance: READ MORE >>
The Ass and the Meaning of Life
Frequency Hopping
SHE WAS A movie star trapped in loveless marriages, trite Hollywood roles, and—worst of all—her own beauty. He was a broke modernist composer reduced to writing schlocky articles for Esquire. Together they gave birth to a frequency-hopping technology that they dreamed would control torpedoes, and which, it would later be discovered, made cell phones function. While it is unlikely that Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil ever slept together, their story is still the stuff of movies. READ MORE >>
