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LIANA CHUA | Recently, a certain meme made the rounds on my (admittedly anthropologist-heavy) social media feed...

MARGARET S. MAUK | Victorian culture—permeated with spiritualists and séances—concerned itself with death on a personal and intimate...

ADHAAR NOOR DESAI | I think most of my students don’t find Shakespeare very funny when they read his plays, even after they’ve grown...

STEPHEN S. BUSH | Nick Cave has said that in Until, his massive, elaborate, and provocative installation at MASS MoCA, he intends to pose...

LAURA MOFFATT | I’m becoming increasingly convinced that architectural history is the most inclusive of studies...

SOHAIB I. KHAN | Pakistan’s descent into violent forms of religious extremism has recently become the subject of best-selling books...

BRAD EAST | Should the Bible be read like any other book?...

ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Brown’s dirt is the red Virginia clay, which years ago stained everything in my life...

NATHAN HOFER | One of the more difficult tasks facing historians of early Sufism is to disentangle its development as an identifiable...

YAEL RICE | In October 2016, during the final month of a fractious presidential election that saw the GOP contender...

WILL THEISS | In the tenth canto of the Inferno, the poet Dante and his guide Virgil make their way through the sixth circle of Hell...

THOMAS J. MILLAY | Any serious consideration of the story of Abraham and Isaac is bound to produce anxiety—perhaps even sleep deprivation...