Essays

We had been looking for Hakeldama for close to an hour, wandering through deep, desertic, geological gouges stubbled with little merkins of shrubbery and low gray trees that look squashed and drained of chlorophyll. The sun did strange...

The topic has come up in our pages regularly over the years.

Turning my inner bibliophile loose in a four-story bookstore is an invitation for disaster.

In a recent essay in n+1, Benjamin Kunkel, in a wide-ranging consideration of technology’s effects on contemporary culture and daily life, writes that the internet and its products feel forced upon us. For anyone who goes online daily—and...

We have discovered more than a half dozen passages in the forthcoming book that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources.

Despite popular perceptions of the jury trial, this most central feature of the American legal system is actually slowly disappearing.

No one book could ever hope to encompass a country as complex and multi-faceted as Iran. But if you read these five, you’ll be on your way.

“Why not write an excerpt for the home page?” the web editor suggested.

June 21 begets reading lists. These are some of the better ones that have been put together this year.

The Virginia Quarterly Review was first published by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in the spring of 1925. Conceived as a “national journal of discussion,” the journal was created by liberal Southern educators who sought to...