Joshua Rothman

The lesson from the past is simple. When we stop using vaccines that work, the diseases they prevent come back.

The nature of authorship isn’t as straightforward as it seems.

The skills needed for wrapping up aren’t always what you expect.

The scandal suggests that everything awful we’ve ever believed is true.

We think we need space to be creative—but that might have it exactly backward.

The judgments we use to elevate our lives can also hem them in.

In Karl Ove Knausgaard’s new cycle of novels, old mysteries reassert themselves.