<i>On Fairy-stories</i>
I have never seen the stars.
Instead of stars, I have seen spirits:
> of living silver made that sudden burst
to flame like flowers beneath an ancient song,
whose very echo after-music
Literature
Safe as Houses
When I was young, I buried myself deep in the attic corner, huddled under layers
of quilts beneath dusty rafters bowing to midnight winds. After a while, I would
creep downstairs for a
<i>Plato at the Googleplex</i>
A favorite thought experiment of mine is to imagine a famous individual from
history resurrected and interacting with aspects of our contemporary society.
What aspects of our culture would fascinate him or her,
The Wisdom of <i>The Circle</i>
In his early modern utopian vision the New Atlantis, Francis Bacon imagined a
proto-scientific and technological society fully dedicated to the liberating
power of knowledge. Natural and divine revelation would be united “to
What We Loved in 2014: Part I
Instead of a “best of” list we asked our editors and staff writers to share the
books, movies, or music they loved in 2014. What they contributed didn’t have to
be from