Arts & Culture

New York: Riverhead Books, 2019. 352 pp. $28 (hardcover). In recent years, many people have embraced specialization as the preferred method for cultivating elite performance in fields such as sports, medicine, music, and robotics. Parents, coaches, and teachers are pushing children at increasingly earlier ages to become specialists through lots…

I hope you’ll join us in Boston for the most life-enhancing conference of the year—it’s gonna be a blast!

Whereas a lot of modern fiction advocates moral relativism or champions the “antihero,” Geralt of Rivia offers philosophically refreshing, action-packed rebuttals to those tiring tropes.

Here are some gift ideas that I think may enrich your holidays, your relationships, and your life. Merry Christmas!

Dorothy Fontana, who died this week at the age of eighty, is best known for her work as a writer for the original Star Trek television series. But, in fact, she was one of the most remarkable women in Hollywood history.

Stephen Hillenburg left a legacy of youthful enthusiasm and exuberant optimism.

Keats’s life was cruelly short and marred by tragedy, unrequited love, and ill health. But his frail body held a formidable soul. That soul lives on through his poetry and inspires us to make the most of our own opportunities for joy.

Six beautiful poems to accompany Lisa VanDamme’s essay “The Life and Poetry of John Keats.”

Ex-Muslim Bosch Fawstin has received thousands of death threats from Muslims enraged by his drawings of Muhammaed, and he’s collected them in a series that belies the idea that Islam is “a religion of peace.”

Let’s hope that future entries in the Star Wars universe follow Fallen Order’s example and once again give us good reasons to fantasize about being Jedi.