Do these “four late nineteenth-century visionaries” still speak to us?
George Scialabba
Book Interview: George Scialabba on Low Dishonest Decades — and the Dishonesty to Come
Reading the essays in this collection is like receiving a first-rate tutorial on the way we live now and how we got here.
Book Review: “Neurotic Beauty”—Japanese Therapeutics
Berman finds a submerged psychic and cultural stratum in Japanese culture that might supply possible antidotes to the US’s consumerist and individualist fevers.
Fuse Book Interview: “For the Republic” — An Independent View
George Scialabba is still outfoxing the professional eggheads in For the Republic, his third collection of essays on political and cultural topics.
Book Review: So You Say You Want a Revolution? “Democratic Enlightenment”
Jonathan I. Israel has written a monumental three-volume history of the Enlightenment, approximately 2500 pages long, not including three lengthy bibliographies. His erudition is fabulous; his range is dizzying.