Why Lorca Matters
NOËL VALIS | Memory and death. The solid and the spectral. The murdered Spanish poet-playwright Federico García Lorca . . .
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Sep 15, 2023
Stop Looking at Yourself: On the Dangers of Mirrors and Selfies
AMIT MAJMUDAR | An image of yourself, seen for what it is, should be regarded with alarm.
Apr 27, 2023
What is Scientific Truth—And Why Does it Keep Changing?
LORRAINE DASTON | Follow the science. But which science, whose science, today’s science or tomorrow’s?
Apr 13, 2023
Science and Metaphysics: A Family Quarrel?
IAIN MCGILCHRIST | Philosophy and science alike take as their ultimate aim to enlarge our understanding of Science & Humanism
Apr 13, 2023
A Nook of Her Own: Virginia Woolf, Class, and the Creative Life
ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Space is our birthright. So it is imperative that we have some of our own.
Mar 16, 2023
Forbidden Hunger: The Rabbis’ Path to Wellness
YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI |The way to cure bulmos, asserts the Talmud, is to feed the sufferer whatever they demand—even forbidden food
Mar 3, 2023
Science, Imagination, and Poetry
Tom McLeish In memoriam: Professor Tom McLeish FRS (May 1, 1962 – February 27, 2023). Read as a PDF For at least a century, both public...
Feb 17, 2023
Cormac McCarthy: The End of the Road
MARK C. TAYLOR | At the age of ninety, Cormac McCarthy has published a remarkable two-volume novel that is, in my judgment, his best work.
Feb 3, 2023
Winning the Lottery and Learning to Dream
BRAD HOLDEN | I should start with a confession—two, actually. The first is that I very recently purchased tickets for the lottery.
Jan 20, 2023
Becoming Self-Aware In Words: A Sanskrit Lexicon of Emotions
SOPHUS HELLE | Literacy begins with lexicons. An ancient Egyptian text named The Onomasticon of Amenope opens with a splendid promise
Jan 19, 2023
The Cherubim: From Guardians of Eden to Auschwitz
JAMES A. DIAMOND | The problem that continues to vex is how to wrest meaning from creatures that are mythological figments
Dec 8, 2022
Hebrew Literature and The Fate of American Hebraism
YESHUA G.B. TOLLE | As I turned the pages of those frail, tattered, overlooked books, I found traces of a familiar desire.
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