From its roots in the 15th-century Latin translation called the "Corpus Hermeticum" to best-selling books by Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, and Carolyn Myss, "metaphysical religiosity has always been ...

Biography's contribution to intellectual history depends on its ability to express relationships among formal ideas, personal qualities, and historical circumstances. Louis Menand's The Metaphysical ...

(The Conversation) — As New York City mayor Eric Adams attends ribbon cuttings, marches in parades and bulldozes dirt bikes, he wears an energy stone bracelet that his supporters gave him. In a recent ...

Steven Poole reviews Lucy Inglis’s history of opium: “The author’s style is perky and informal, which can result in her writing such things as ‘the drug is both a tremendous force for good and an ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood novel, “The Last Tycoon,” is an admiring roman à clef about the visionary studio boss Irving Thalberg, who, in his early twenties, had more or less invented the ...

Winner of a prize at this past year’s Rotterdam festival, Anocha Suwichakornpong’s well-modulated debut feature is an unlikely diptych of caregiver-and-patient portrait and Enter the Void nebular ...