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In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller an
The Great War haunted the British Empire. Shell shocked soldiers relived the war's trauma through wa
In Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism (Routledge, 2024), Michael J.
When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades
Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India's Muslims was proposed, is both the
Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America (NYU Press, 2024) argues that t
The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture (Cornell UP, 2023) tel
There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on F
Today I talked to Julia Caterina Hartley about Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary C
For most of recorded history, neighboring countries, tribes, and peoples everywhere in the world reg
A question has long hung over the the United States regarding the proper role of religion in public
How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information
Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America (SUNY Press, 2022) proposes the exist
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav’s book Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood (Pengu
Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherent
In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies,
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks display
Remember the bleach drinking episode? Remember ‘alternative facts’? Remember ‘I have the best words’
Nāgārjuna (c. 150-250), founder of the Madhyamaka or Middle Way school of Buddhist philosophy and th
In Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington, 2012), William Altman shines a light on
