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CLIO DOYLE | Science was everywhere in the seventeenth century, especially in literature...

JONATHON LOOKADOO | Historical facts and obscure trivia provide excellent material for pub quizzes...

A.M. JUSTER | French departments do not lavish attention on the golden era of Moliére and Racine to the exclusion of later French writers...

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...