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Yet another cadre goes after the old English naturalist. But these critics, like many before them, are deluded, says Michael Ruse.

Brian Croxall's paper was a smash hit because it touched a nerve in academe.

... despite what you may have heard, writes Diane Coyle.

Nonfiction emits a whiff of the déclassé on the literary menu, served with a garnish of condescension. Two zesty new books rewrite the bill of fare.

Steven G. Kellman offers an alternative view of one of those books: David Shields’s Reality Hunger.

He's not where you would expect, writes Edward Dutton.

Just pretend you read it, advises Robert J. Cabin. We're all very busy.

Nina C. Ayoub writes about a peer-reviewed journal of undergraduate writing on film; and a book on cinematic depictions of virginity.

Female combat veterans on their life-changing experiences.

Smart films and smart film critiques have gone hand in hand. The Internet age endangers both, writes Thomas Doherty.

History shows that populists sometimes rouse the rabble with very good ideas, according to Leon Fink.

It's not a frill atop your education, says Carolyn Foster Segal. It's crucial to your education.

One of Elizabeth Stone's students died—and then was virtually everywhere.

Peter Schmidt looks at a new book that reels in the bizarre history of rainbow trout.

The Harvard professor's latest televised genetic odyssey is rich in emotion but lacking in context. By Alondra Nelson.