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YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI |The way to cure bulmos, asserts the Talmud, is to feed the sufferer whatever they demand—even forbidden food

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...

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.

BRAD HOLDEN | I should start with a confession—two, actually. The first is that I very recently purchased tickets for the lottery.

SOPHUS HELLE | Literacy begins with lexicons. An ancient Egyptian text named The Onomasticon of Amenope opens with a splendid promise

JAMES A. DIAMOND | The problem that continues to vex is how to wrest meaning from creatures that are mythological figments

YESHUA G.B. TOLLE | As I turned the pages of those frail, tattered, overlooked books, I found traces of a familiar desire.

TAYLOR JIPP | When Trump addressed his audience at the CPAC conference, he called them “the loyal defenders of our heritage

SAMUEL LIU | Every writer has an inner picture, an intuition or a sense of some constellation

AMIT MAJMUDAR | My wife does classical Indian dance. I love to watch her practice

AYELET HAIMSON LUSHKOV | Aristotle, more than he loved his own father. Livy, on the other hand

LINDY ELKINS-TANTON | Right now, it seems that all our narratives are narratives of guilt and fear. Climate change. The pandemic. Pollution.