Longreads

Tags: Scientology, William Burroughs William S. Burroughs at the Saint Hill Scientology Bookstore, 1968 In Ted Morgan’s biography, Literary Outlaw, he says that in 1968, Scientology was a…

Coming through the woods, down a soft winding track, two minutes shy of the time we have been instructed to arrive, 10 a.m. on a bright Sunday morning, we see the man already there in the clearing,…

Raymond Tallis likes a fight. On a recent afternoon, visiting this historic city to lecture at the University of Kent, the physician-philosopher intends to pick one. His target: a rash of pseudo brain science that purports to explain behavior as varied as believing in God and falling in love. Tallis, a former clinical neuroscientist who devoted years to studying stroke and epilepsy, considers such claims trash. Neurotrash.

Whether it's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Girl, Interrupted or A Beautiful Mind, why is madness always made so visible, so tangible, so audible? People talk to imaginary companions, they…

It is inconceivable that a collected edition of Pounds letters will be published within the next twenty, thirty, or forty years, if by collected we mean all the letters, displayed in chronological…

22 September 2011 W.G. Sebald, stifled by the culture of silence in post-war Germany, by 'people's ability to forget what they do not want to know', settled in 1960s England and wrote…

First published Wed Sep 21, 2011 Philosophy of linguistics is the philosophy of science as applied to linguistics. This differentiates it sharply from the philosophy of language, traditionally…