Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate

Some people can't read a book without a pencil in hand. Geoff Dyer can't read without picking his nose. To each his own... more

What ails American literature? English departments, says Joseph Epstein, have become intellectual nursing homes, where old ideas go to die... more

Militant atheism offers a simplistic reading of religious belief, says James Wood. In reality, our beliefs fluctuate. We are all flip-floppers... more