Confidentially Yours: The Banality of the Celebrity Profile and How It Got That Way
Anne Helen Petersen, The Believer
Beauty is Truth: There’s a False Equation
Philip Ball, Aeon
Why Harvard Was Right Not to Ban the Black Mass
Robert T. Miller, Public Discourse
The Don’s Don
Katy Waldman, Slate
The Pacification of Rio, as Observed from a Gondola
Amy Moran-Thomas, Boston Review
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
Letters
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…