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KELLY M.S. SWOPE | The task for the poet of hard times is to look into the deepest part of the night without recoiling at what he sees...

TOBY HECHT | We are reminded that our suffering and persecution will end. We sing and our cups run over. We toast life and give gratitude..

PHILIP BALL | Conflicts can in fact be tremendously fertile, alerting us to areas where more work is needed . . .

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | There is a long tradition, of course, of writing for lay audiences about science...

SAMUEL LONCAR| Irony traces the curve of human existence striving to be a straight line...

DEONNIE MOODIE | Circulations of anti-priestcraft produced the ideal of the liberal subject that would not require external rule ...

YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Reacting out of unconscious patterns makes us poor judges, and we are all judges whether we wish to be or not. . .

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | In the last forty years, Jane Goodall has become a saint of modern environmentalism, an unwavering voice calling. . .

SherAlit Tareen | The very definition of what counts as blasphemy has remained a subject of tremendous debate. . .

STEVEN E. ASCHHEIM | Time’s Echo is about the painful but also potentially liberating interactions between culture and catastrophe.

DANIEL WOOLF | Apart from the stories she tells, Bakewell builds a case for remembering—even in the shadow of Auschwitz, Rwanda, 9/11. . .

Slandering the Sacred by J. Barton Scott is a landmark study in the field of religion and South Asia. . .