Aristotle

On Science, Ancient Philosophy, and Re-Enchanting Nature

M.D. Usher Takes Stock of Anthropocentric Ideas in the Anthropocene

 
By M.D. Usher  May 13, 2025
Language

Catharsis, Harpies, Harmatia, and More: Natasha Pulley on Her Favorite Greek Words

By Natasha Pulley  March 19, 2025
On Grief

How Reading Grief Memoirs Helped Cody Delistraty Understand His Loss in New Ways

By Cody Delistraty  June 25, 2024
Science!

Hitting the Aesthetic Triad While Gazing at Art

By Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross  March 22, 2023
Books

How Traveling Booksellers Spread Literature Throughout Ancient Greece

By Irene Vallejo  October 18, 2022
The History of Literature

Aristotle Can Teach Us Everything We Need to Know About Screenwriting

By History of Literature  July 5, 2022
News and Culture

2,000 Years Old and Still Going Strong: Aristotle’s Lessons in Storytelling

By Philip Freeman  May 13, 2022
Archeology

The Fugitive Who Conned His Way Into the Footsteps of Alexander the Great—and the Quest for His Lost Cities

By Edmund Richardson  April 5, 2022
First Draft

How Jean Hanff Korelitz Learned to Create Tension and Suspense on the Page

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 10, 2022
Philosophy

In Literature, Considering Love as Both Attention and Absorption

By Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko  January 4, 2022
The Virtual Book Channel

WATCH: Myisha Cherry and Jacqueline Woodson Discuss the Liberatory Possibilities of Lordean Rage

By The Virtual Book Channel  December 9, 2021
Keen On

Sebastian Junger on Freedom vs. Community

By Keen On  October 22, 2021
Keen On

What the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us About Innovation

By Keen On  October 21, 2021
Literary History

On the Lost “Lenny Bruce of Athens”

By Mark Haskell Smith  August 18, 2021
Mothers

Excerpts from A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing

By Kimberly Grey  April 30, 2021
Literary Icons

Oscar Levant and Oscar Wilde: Masters of Staving Off Melancholy with Wit

By David Lazar  November 9, 2020
Math

On the Beauty of Math

By Haim Shapira  June 27, 2019
Excerpts

In Aristotle’s Ideal Democracy, a Good Citizen Was a Good Friend

By Edith Hall  January 23, 2019
What to Read

10 College Courses to Read Along With This Semester (From Your Couch)

By Emily Temple  September 6, 2017
Personal Essay

Can Your Best Friends Be Books?

By Eve Fairbanks  August 29, 2017
Essay

We Were Wrong About Gravity… What Do We Have Wrong Today?

By Chuck Klosterman  June 7, 2016
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