Texts of Greek and Roman literature do not usually come down to us in lavishly illustrated editions dating back to what we term classical antiquity…
Read MoreWhen an exhibition is devoted to a theme, its paintings take a backseat, often to the detriment of the paintings…
Read MoreThe extensive development of popular television is one of the most distinctive cultural achievements of the post-Reform era…
Read MoreThe penalty in rocket fuel for mining on Mars is pretty big. Asteroids are better…
Read MoreBishop’s persona is part she-moose, part bus; part warrior-fish, part oily vessel; part pastoral idyll, and part atomic bomb…
Read MoreThe cool shadow of the fig-trees in the yards, with the whiff of that queer smell, heavy with romance, of wine-saturated oak and crumbling plaster; I know with a little stab of joy that this is Italy…
Read MoreThat thing? It’s just a monster living in Microsoft’s basement. And it’s wearing someone’s face…
Read MoreElizabeth Bishop explored Brazil extensively, making trips down the Amazon, traversing the tropical rainforest with Aldous Huxley…
Read MoreRecalling how Kafka’s tale ends, with the gatekeeper closing the door of the Law as the protagonist expires, roaring in his ear that all along it was meant for him alone…
Read MoreThe pair fly to Japan where they discover the virtual world conjured via the internet does not reflect reality…
Read MoreToday, when I hear that fraudsters such as Robin DiAngelo are seeking to coerce employees of large corporations into joining “racial affinity groups”, my only thought is this: No thanks, lady. I’ve seen that trick before…
Read MoreWas the Glorious Revolution even a revolution? Should it be understood as its own event or merely the final chapter in the seventeenth-century English conflict with the Stuarts?
Read MoreHow do we enter into the ritual time outside of time in which narrative unfolds?
Read MoreSpectacle Island would not look the way it does today if it were not for Boston…
Read MoreAt the time of the dooms in the third quarter of the Reaper’s Moon, in the island of Britain…
Read MoreThe same radicalizing dynamic, which was predicated on a complete break with the past, also made it very difficult, and perhaps even impossible, to leave certain pasts behind…
Read MoreAt first I wanted to write only at night. The great romantic writers I admired wrote mostly in the witching hours. Can you imagine Kafka lugging his laptop to Starbucks at seven in the morning?
Read MoreThese books destined me to an unbalanced life, like a poorly packed U-Haul that leans too far to one side…
Read MoreThere are two competing perspectives about the cause of the opioid explosion, and they lead to different policy prescriptions…
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