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Leaving the Fold
The memoir of a former nun who left her convent after twelve years reveals the contradictions of the monastic life as well as the limits of memoir.
Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
by Catherine Coldstream
June 20, 2024 issue
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Meghan O’Gieblyn is the author of God, Human, Animal, Machine and the essay collection Interior States. (June 2024)
Leaving the Fold
The memoir of a former nun who left her convent after twelve years reveals the contradictions of the monastic life as well as the limits of memoir.
Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
by Catherine Coldstream
June 20, 2024 issue
The Trouble with Reality
William Egginton’s intellectual biography of Borges, Kant, and Heisenberg takes place at the intersection of physics and religion, and traces the errors that result when we forget the limits of our human point of view.
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
by William Egginton
March 21, 2024 issue
Up All Night
Harald Voetmann’s protagonists live in the distant past, but are prototypically modern: men of science who are intent on outrunning our primal nightmare.
Awake
by Harald Voetmann, translated from the Danish by Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen
Sublunar
by Harald Voetmann, translated from the Danish by Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen
November 2, 2023 issue
The Life of the Mind
The Guest Lecture, Martin Riker's new novel, dramatizes with rare vibrancy an economist's preparation for a talk on John Maynard Keynes.
The Guest Lecture
by Martin Riker
March 23, 2023 issue
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