ESSAYS WORTH REMBMBERING

• Jennifer A. Frey at The Point - Paris Without Her Cathedral

• Otis Houston at the LA Review of Books - The Singular Power of Writing: A Conversation With Thomas Chatterton Williams

• Sam Anderson in the New York Times Sunday Magazine - Rick Steves Wants to Set You Free

• Aurelian Craiutu at the LA Review of Books - A Genius for Being Human

• Adam Szetela in Dissent - Remembering Erik Olin Wright

• Sue Halpern in The New York Review of Books - Apologize Later

• Nathan Rich in The New York Review of Books - Roth Agonistes

• Jason Farago in The New York Review of Books - A Flag Is a Flag Is a Flag

• Freeman Dyson in The New York Review of Books - The Big Bang

• John Wilson in The Weekly Standard - Boomerang Effect

• Samuel Moyn in The Boston Review of Books - Mark Lilla and the Crisit of Liberalism

• Barrett Swanson in Guernica - Letter From a Target Rich Environment

• Scott Spillman in The Point - Potentially Much Better

• Adam Kirsch in Tablet - A Shared Debt; The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

• Tish Harrison Warren in The Point - True Story

• Toril Moi in The Point - Describing My Struggle

• Charles Simic in The New York Review of Books - Poems from the Abyss

• James K.A. Smith in The Washington Post - The NFL's Thanksgiving

• Paul Gleason in The Point - The Picture in Her Mind

• Stanley Hauerwas in The Washington Post - The Reformation is Over

• Geoffrey O'Brien in The New York Review of Books - Five Magnificent Years

• Jon Baskin in The Lost Angeles Review of Books - Philosophy and the the Good's of the City

• A Conversation with Karl Ove Knausgaard in The Point - The Innocence of Things

• William Friedken in T Magazine - In Search of Marcel Proust

• Richard Kearney in LARB - The World Coming At Us Backward

• Josh Rothman in The New Yorker - Rod Dreher's Monastic Vision

• Jon Baskin in The Nation - In the Sick-Box

• Meghan O'Gieblyn in n+1 - Ghosts in the Cloud

• Barrett Swanson in the New York Times - Pistol Pete's Homework Basketball

• Tony Judt in The New York Review of Books - Captive Minds Now and Then

• Sheila Liming in The Point - In Praise of Not Not Reading

• Andrew Kay in The Point - Pilgrim at Tinder Creek

• Jon Baskin in the Chronicle of Higher Education - The Man Against Everything

• William Corbett in The Paris Review - The Moviegoer: An Interview with Fanny Howe

• Sylvain Bormeau in The Paris Review - Scare Tactics: Michel Houellebecq Defends His Controversial New Book

• Merve Emre in Public Books - The Ferrante Paradox

• Zadie Smith in The New York Review of Books - On Optimism and Despair

• Kathryn Lofton in The Point - Understanding is Dangerous

• Peter Gordon in the New York Review of Books - Kierkegaard's Rebellion

• Jeffery Eugenides in T Magazine - The Pieces of Zadie Smith

• Will Rees in the Times Literary Supplement - Cruel Intentions: Searching for Kierkegaard

• Zena Hitz in the Washington Post – What is A Safe Space? The Mind of A Student Able to Think Critically

• William Friedken in T Magazine - In Search of Marcel Proust

• Richard Kearney in LARB - The World Coming At Us Backward

• Josh Rothman in The New Yorker - Rod Dreher's Monastic Vision

• Jon Baskin in The Nation - In the Sick-Box

• Meghan O'Gieblyn in n+1 - Ghosts in the Cloud

• Barrett Swanson in the New York Times - Pistol Pete's Homework Basketball

• Tony Judt in The New York Review of Books- Captive Minds Now and Then

• Sheila Liming in The Point - In Praise of Not Not Reading

• Andrew Kay in The Point - Pilgrim at Tinder Creek

• Jon Baskin in the Chronicle of Higher Education - The Man Against Everything

• William Corbett in The Paris Review - The Moviegoer: An Interview with Fanny Howe

• Sylvain Bormeau in The Paris Review - Scare Tactics: Michel Houellebecq Defends His Controversial New Book

• Merve Emre in Public Books - The Ferrante Paradox

• Zadie Smith in The New York Review of Books - On Optimism and Despair

• Kathryn Lofton in The Point - Understanding is Dangerous

• Peter Gordon in the New York Review of Books - Kierkegaard's Rebellion

• Jeffery Eugenides in T Magazine - The Pieces of Zadie Smith

• Will Rees in the Times Literary Supplement - Cruel Intentions: Searching for Kierkegaard

• Zena Hitz in the Washington Post – What is A Safe Space? The Mind of A Student Able to Think Critically

• The Editors at The Point – On Political Fiction

• Alan Jacobs in Harper’s – The Watchmen

• Jacob Mikanowski in The Point – Camera Phone Lucida

• Joseph E. Davis in The Hedgehog Review – The Young and the Uneasy

• Paul Gleason in The Point - The Wildness of Things

• Samuel Cooper and John Sherer in The Point - Sensitive Subjects

• Ted O'Neill in The Point - Admissions Failure

• Jon Baskin in The Nation - Don DeLillo's American Dream

• Alexsandar Hemon in Lit Hub - Why I Didn't Sign the Open Letter Against Donald Trump

• Edward Mendelson in The New York Review of Books - In the Depths of the Digital Age

• Michael Henry Adams in The New York Times - The End of Black Harlem

• Nathan Rich in The New York Review of Books - James Baldwin and the Fear of the Nation

• Nicholas Haramis in T Magazine - Perfect Strangers: When Chelsea Handler Met Leon Wieseltier

• Terry Eagleton in Commonweal- The Hubris of Culture and the Limits of Identity Politics

• Zena Hitz in First Things - Freedom and Intellectual Life

• Nathan Heller in The New Yorker - Welcome to the Future: Middle Class Housing Projects

• Thomas Frank in The American Conservative - The Blue State Model

• The Editors at Commonweal - What Some Protestors Don't Understand

• Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in The Telegraph - We Are Facing an Unprecedented Age of Terror

• Jake Bittle in The Point - Fear and Loathing

• Jamie K.A. Smith in USA Today - Clinton, Sanders Miss the Point on Student Debt

• Leon Wieseltier in The Atlantic - A.O. Scott, Critic Without a Cause

• Andrew Bacevich in Commonweal – New Nukes?

• Lisa Ruddick in The Point - When Nothing is Cool

• Alan Jacobs in The American Conservative - Compassion and the Humanities

• Karl Ove Knausgaard in The New York Times –  On the Brink: Review of Michael Houellebecq’s Submission

• Ross Douthat in The New York Times - A Crisis Our Universities Deserve

• Jonathan MacDaniel in The Point -  Himself

• Simon Kuper in Financial Times – The Global Elite is Taking Over Sport

• Ruth Graham in Slate -  Jonathan Franzen Called a “Great Song”...

• Ekow N. Yankah in New Yorker – Why NCAA Athletes Shouldn't Be Paid

• Jon Baskin in The Nation - Jonathan Franzen Withdraws

• Rowan Williams in Commonweal - Embracing Our Limits; The Lesson’s of Laudato Si’ 

• David Mikics in The Nation - The Flow of Life; is Saul Bellow the essential American Novelist...?

• Walter Isaacson in The New York Times - Walker Percy's Theory of Hurricanes

• Goodwell Nzou in The New York Times - In Zimbabwe, We Don't Cry for Lions

• Chase Woodruff in 8 by 8 - Among the Brands

• Bill Lattanzi in Medium - Closer to Dave; The "Infinite Jest" Effect

• Anna Scechtman in LA Review of Books - David Foster Wallace's Closed Circuit

• Alan Jacobs in Hedgehog Review - The Witness of Literature: A Genealogical Sketch

• Jake Bittle in The Point - Paper Chasing

• Robert Wuthnow in First Things - In Polls We Trust

• Ian Beackock in Aeon - Humanists Among Machines; Why We Need Arnold Toynbee's Muscular Humanism

• Adam Gopnik in New Yorker - When A Bookstore Closes an Argument Ends

• Jon Baskin in The Point - Out of Good Reasons

• J.C. Hallman in The Baffler - The Monk Retires; Letting go of Philip Roth

• Meghan O'Gieblyn in The Boston Review - The End

• Jesse McCarthy in The Point - Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?

• Catherine Woodiwiss - A New Normal: Ten Things I've Learned About Trauma

• Ross Douthat in The New York Times - The Case For Old Ideas

• Leon Wieseltier in The New Republic - Reason and the Republic of Opinion

• Sue Halpern in The New York Review of Books - The Creepy New Wave of the Internet

• David Brooks in The New York Times - Our Machine Masters

• Paul Krugman in The New York Times - Amazon's Monopoly is Not O.K.

• Peter Gordon in The New York Review of Books - Heidegger in Black

• Isaiah Berlin in The New York Review of Books - A Message to the 21st Century

• Jon Baskin in The Point Magazine - Adult Conversation

• David Brooks in The New York Times - The Art of Presence

• Mark Edmundson in The Chronicle - When I Was Young at Yale