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How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Coverin
Curtis Runstedler's book Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature (Palgrave Macmill
Virginia Woolf’s 1938 provocative and polemical essay Three Guineas presents the iconic writer’s vie
A century after being expelled from Portugal, cryptoJews in Mexico, false converts to Christianity,
William Shakespeare, who lived in England from 1564 to 1616, is one of the world’s most popular and
Professor Cathleen Chopra-McGowan examines some the incongruities of our Bible in the context of the
In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that study
For generations, the composition and recitation of poetry has been a key mode of expression among Be
These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending
Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. Unsaid: Unsaid:
In “Fame is Not Just for the Fellas”: Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series (Un
Many histories of science have been written, but A New History of the Humanities (Oxford UP, 2014) o
In this episode we talk with New York Times Opinion Section Editor Peter Catapano, who has edited an
Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980 fo
Alan Moore’s and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen fundamentally altered the perception of American comic book
Today’s book is: The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature, which is the 2022 Before Columb
Our Books in Dark Times series offered John this 2021 chance to speak with Lorraine Daston of the Ma
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first
