Book Review: Plato's Wayward Path
/Plato might be Western philosophy's first great writer, but a new book argues we've mostly been reading him wrong.
Read MoreBook Review: Sartre: A Philosophical Biography
/Sartre the man takes a distant back seat to Sartre the thinker in Thomas Flynn's new intellectual biography
Read MoreWoven and Severed
/For millennia, the mighty tales in the epics of Homer have challenged and enthralled the world; a thought-provoking new book seeks to understand why.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Abelard in Four Dimensions
/If you're expecting Heloise to make an appearance in this captivating work of scholarship, you'll be disappointed - but not for long, since scholar John Marendbon manages quite well without her
Read MoreBook Review: The Silence of Animals
/The popular philosopher returns to the ideas that made him famous: that man is an animal, that optimism is misguided, and that the very idea of progress is just a re-heated left-over from the zeals of Christianity.
Read MoreBook Review: Commentaries on Plato
/Marsilio Ficino's enormous commentary on the Parmenides of Plato receives a fantastic scholarly edition from - who else? - Harvard's I Tatti Renaissance Library
Read MoreA False Quarrel
/The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems depressingly intractable, an impasse without end. A new book offers a hypothetical solution, but is it foolish idealism, unworkable pragmatism - or a desperately innovative kind of hope?
Read MoreChristploitation
/Sam Sacks laments the great divorce of Christianity from literature
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