“Posner’s book amounts in the end to a wild and incoherent defense of dictatorship.” (Thank you, Robin Varghese, for saving me from another nail-spitting session.)
Graphic novelist Gabrielle Bell (Lucky) illustrates Emily Dickinson’s “It was not death” for the Poetry Foundation. (Also via; and see Dickinson’s gravestone.)
Will a new translation of The Second Sex bring Simone de Beauvoir recognition as a serious philosopher? (Via.)
Today in the Tournament of Books: Mark Sarvas enters Cormac McCarthy’s barren wilderness and emerges a convert.