B. D. McClay

Why This Rabbi Is Swearing Off Kosher Meat
Shmuly Yanklowitz, Wall Street Journal

The Road to the Zombie Office
Martin Filler, New York Review of Books

Punching Down
Elizabeth Stoker

What Lentils and Onions Taught Me About Relationships
Eve Fairbanks, Washington Post

Saint’s Day Triolet: Saint Anthony
Deborah Paredez, Poetry Magazine

Reparations, Colonialism, and How to Engage an Argument
Catherine Addington, The American Conservative

Muriel Spark: the author as dictator
Sameer Rahim, The Telegraph

Wilkie Collins’s Page-turners
Marc M. Arkin, The New Criterion

Lean Years of Plenty
Sam Sacks, Open Letters Monthly

The Exorcists Next Door
Julie Lyons, D Magazine

Life and Times of a Libertine
Christopher Lasch, The Baffler

Long Overdue: A New Anthology of Pregnancy and Birth
Elisa Albert, Los Angeles Review of Books

Waiting for the Revolution
Caleb Gardner, Lapham’s Quarterly

The Real Life of Edward S. Aubyn
Ian Parker, The New Yorker

For Hire: Dedicated Young Man with Down Syndrome
Michael Bérubé, Al Jazeera America

How One Pastor is Fighting for the Lives of Juarez’s Drug Addicts and Mentally Ill
John Stanton, Buzzfeed

In Memoriam: Growing Up Maya Angelou
Lucinda Moore, Smithsonian Magazine

The Family that Robs Banks Together
Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly

Why One Norwegian Author’s 6-Volume, 3,600-Page Book is on the Verge of Breaking Out in America
Boris Kachka, Vulture

Christian Humanism and the Twitter Tsunamis
Alan Jacobs, Text Patterns

Under One Umbrella
Linda Heuman, Tricycle

How Heavy Metal Tracks the Wealth of Nations
Richard Florida, City Lab

Thomas Piketty, a Not-So-Radical French Thinker
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Wall Street Journal

Not Everybody Loves a Parade
Kate Havard, The Weekly Standard

I Am Haunted by Waters
Timothy Danaher, O.P., Dominicana

Belgian Jews Gather to Mourn after Museum Attack
Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Life and Death in the Trenches
Lauren Hansen and Sarah Eberspacher, The Week

Remembering Arthur Gelb, Who Helped Reconcile the ‘Times’ to Its Jewishness
Samuel G. Freedman, Tablet

Nigel Farage Has Made Politics Interesting Again
Iain Martin, The Telegraph

Judging Spinoza
Steven Nadler, New York Times

Confidentially Yours: The Banality of the Celebrity Profile and How It Got That Way
Anne Helen Petersen, The Believer

Beauty is Truth: There’s a False Equation
Philip Ball, Aeon

Why Harvard Was Right Not to Ban the Black Mass
Robert T. Miller, Public Discourse

The Don’s Don
Katy Waldman, Slate

The Pacification of Rio, as Observed from a Gondola
Amy Moran-Thomas, Boston Review

Conservatives Must Increase Economic Security not Undermine It
Anna Sutherland, Millennial

Can Google Search for Friendship?
Leah Libresco, The American Conservative

I’m Sorry Ms. Jackson
Chris Morgan, American Spectator

Main Street, USA
Matt Ray Robison, The Morning News

Descartes’s Other Side
Catherine Wilson, Times Literary Supplement

Tel Aviv Catholic Church Serves Growing Migrant Community
Indrani Basu and John Albert, Religion News Service

Whit Stillman and Chloë Sevigny on Loving Paris
William van Meter, New York Magazine

What are the humanities good for?
Adam Kotsko, An und für sich

The New Humanities
The Editors, The Point

Love and Death in the Cape Fear Serpentarium
Wendy Brenner, Oxford American

A Commencement Address from Jonathan Edwards
Aaron Bady, The New Inquiry

Annotation Tuesday! Tom Wolfe and “Radical Chic”
Elon Green, Niemans Storyboard

Dust or Ashes?
Virginia Stem Owens, Books & Culture

The Irish Catholic Promoting Yiddish Literature
Hannah Dreyfus, Tablet

The Worst Day Of My Life is now New York’s Hottest Tourist Attraction
Steve Kandell, Buzzfeed