Change Your Direction
/A lively memoir shows there's much more to learning a language than conjugating irregular verbs.
Read MoreBook Review: Homo Deus
/The author of the popular-science hit Sapiens returns with a book that looks not to humanity's distant past but rather to its immediate future.
Read MoreThe Disgraceful Lowlands of Writing
/Reiner Stach's masterful, epic biography of Kafka is finally complete. Never has the man been less mysterious, but can it illuminate the confounding, beguiling mystery of his writing?
Read MoreBook Review: I Contain Multitudes
/If who we are includes the multitudes of microscopic organisms that we house and feed, which in turn help regulate our immunity and sculpt our destinies, then what constitutes the individual?
Read MoreAbsent Friends: An Intellectual All The Time
/An old book by a monk may be the best thing ever written about the practice of thinking. Robert Minto revisits The Intellectual Life.
Read MoreLoving American Philosophy: A Testimony
/John Kaag's memoir of personal engagement with American philosophy demonstrates its ongoing vitality. Kenyon Gradert reviews.
Read MorePatricide Deferred
/Stuart Jeffries has written the first truly accessible account of the Frankfurt School. Robert Minto reviews.
Read MoreSocrates of Amazonia
/What exactly is a philosopher? As it turns out, that question may have more than one answer. Robert Minto shares the exciting results of Justin Smith's new history.
Read MoreA Question of Character
/In an entertaining new study of Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir and company, the existentialist movement becomes a personality-driven piece of public performance.
Read MoreBook Review: Cosmosapiens
/A sweeping new overview of the sciences has big ambitions - and some odd sticking points
Read MoreSlaves in the Empire of Intellect
/Before he was a famous and controversial philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche was a young professor with a bone to pick. Robert Minto discusses his critique of higher education.
Read More'Tis the Season
/Years after the "New Atheism" heyday, a new book by an old hand takes up the atheist cause with renewed urgency.
Read MoreBook Review: Islam and the Future of Tolerance
/A polite conversation by two intellectuals about an explosive subject: the rise of militant Islamic groups throughout the world, and the world's response
Read MoreBook Review: Self and Soul
/A spirited defense of humanist intangibles in a culture obsessed with material gain
Read MoreBook Review: Voltaire's Revolution
/For the better part of a century, Voltaire waged a sometimes solitary battle against the iniquities of organized religion. A great new book brings together fresh translations of some of the philosopher's most biting works.
Read MoreBook Review: The World Beyond Your Head
/The "ecologies of attention and action" form the dynamic heart of philosopher Matthew Crawford's new book. Robert Minto reviews.
Read MoreFather Knows Best
/He shaped the morals and manners of a vast country and put an indelible stamp on the world's thinking, but he himself couldn't get the job he wanted. Robert Minto reviews a new history of Confucianism.
Read MoreLovin', Touchin', Squeeezin'
/It has three hearts, eight tentacles, and a brain of startling and utterly alien complexity - it's the octopus, and a heartfelt book takes readers inside the cephalopod world.
Read MoreThe Schizophrenic Prophet
/A sumptuous new Library of America volume contains a rich sampling of the work of Reinhold Niebuhr - whom reviewer Robert Minto refers to as "the premiere establishment theologian of the 20th century."
Read MoreBook Review: American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan
/American senator, author, and statesman Daniel Patrick Moynihan's complex and constantly-evolving political philosophy is the subject of a pointed new book
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