Nobody understands Gertrude Stein. With her, incomprehension was always, at least partly, the point

Francesca Wade On Gertrude Stein

The Enigma of Gertrude Stein

“Always read the magazine you’re submitting to,” “don’t resubmit the same day,” and other advice from literary magazine editors

No Preliminary Injunction Over Residents' Claim That S.F. Failed to Adequately Police Tenderloin Sidewalks

Today in Supreme Court History: March 30, 1875

Banking beyond the law

Maryland Lawyer/Ex-Legislator Again Rebuffed in Attempt to Seal Alleged Libel

John Aubrey At Four Hundred

Prime Numbers Might Not Be Random After All

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Alice B. Toklas after Gertrude Stein. “Without Baby, there is no direction to anything — it’s just milling around in the dark”

Andrew Tate Doesn’t Get the Point of Books

Judicial Retirements Are Not Always What They Seem

Harold Bloom made academics wince and general readers swoon. The asymmetry was the point

"I find myself being more and more difficult," Toni Morrison once said. "It's something I really relish." The difficulty was the point

Elaine Scarry says pain unmakes language. Jan Steyn begs to differ — or at least keeps translating and typing

10 years of AlphaGo: The turning point for AI

Peter Matthiessen went to Paris to spy and write the Great American Novel. But he was, in his words, “always in the club drinking martinis”

Justice Jackson Was Partly Mistaken About Mifepristone

In War, the Enemy Always Gets a Vote