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Our September 24 issue—the Fall Books Issue—is now online, with Meghan O’Gieblyn on human will, the church, and AI; Susan Tallman on connoisseurship; Jacob Weisberg on craven Dartmouth; Miranda Seymour on Gwendoline Riley; Joy Williams on Peter Matthiessen; Jed S. Rakoff on climate change at court; David Shulman on settler violence in the West Bank; Susan Neiman on the particulars of universal morality; Piper French on houseboat living; Omer Bartov on antisemitism and anti-Zionism; poems by Sharon Olds, David Pollard, Jeffrey Yang, and Lawrence Joseph; and much more.

Jacob Weisberg
The Dartmouth Exception

Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.

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Joy Williams
‘A Fury of Dark Energies’

A biography of Peter Matthiessen captures his antithetical actions and character while never losing sight of his ardent attentiveness to the natural world.

Meghan O’Gieblyn
Wishing It So

As AI erodes our attention spans and expressiveness, philosophers like Simone Weil and Arthur Schopenhauer offer profound insights on what it means to be an individual.

Miranda Seymour
Chills of the Unsaid

In its skewering of London’s literary egos, Gwendoline Riley’s The Palm House takes a step away from her previous parent-dominated novels, but it too is told by a middle-aged woman struggling to come to terms with her childhood and adolescence.

When Luther Vandross’s Father Puts a Dollar Under His Son’s Pillow

a poem by
Sharon Olds

When our kids were young, I thought I was going to
be as good a parent to them
as my parents had not been to me—maybe
exactly as good. On the radio, as I drive,
a father is putting a sign of kindness
under his boy’s sleeping head, I am
on a dirt road, I go slower and slower,
my face wet, gargoyle in a downpour, I am
seeing there are parents who are almost entirely
good for their children—and I was OK…

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