When Scott Frank was a child, his father, Barry, bought a small Cessna airplane, and on weekends the two of them would fly. This was the mid-nineteen-seventies, in Los Gatos, California. Barry was a ...

The Big Ideas: Who Do You Think You Are? The story of the self is not always a grand tale. By Simon Critchley Mr. Critchley is a professor of philosophy and an author. This essay is part of a series ...