Adam Kirsch: The Revolt Against Humanity

Max Weber: The Vocation Lectures

Michael Ignatieff: On Consolation

Emily Hall: The Longcut

Paul Lafargue: The Right to Be Lazy

Jed Perl: Authority and Freedom

Helen DeWitt: The English Understand Wool

Anthony T. Kronman: After Disbelief

Wendy Brown: Nihilistic Times

Avram Alpert: The Good-Enough Life

Henry Marsh: And Finally

Claire Keegan: Small Things Like These

Yiyun Li: The Book of Goose

Peter Schjeldahl: Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light

Knut Martin Heim: Ecclesiastes

Signe Gjessing: Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus

Annie Baker: The Flick

John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle: Henry at Work

Natasha Brown: Assembly

Louise Glück: Marigold and Rose

Hiroko Oyamada: Weasels in the Attic