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Among the Jewish writers who emigrated from Eastern Europe to France in the 1910s and 1920s, a numbe
In this week’s episode from the Institute’s Vault, Molly Haskell talks about her 2009 book, Frankly,
Matthew Thomas, theologian and biblical scholar, explains how the Bible got to be the Bible, how con
In this week’s episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear a lecture on the revival of narrative in
Lisa Swayze is the General Manager and Buyer at Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca’s cooperatively owned i
In this interview, she discusses her book, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History (Oxfo
In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler’
“The Little Mermaid” has become popular around the world since the Danish author Hans Christian Ande
Three centuries of English idioms—their unusual origins and unexpected interpretations.To pay throug
Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means o
John Milton is unrivalled--for the music of his verse and the breadth of his learning. In this brisk
Regarded as the “9th Art”, French bande desinée have a much longer history of serious socio-politica
From governesses with supernatural powers to motor-car obsessed amphibians, the iconic images of Eng
In Writing With Scripture: Scripturalized Narrative in the Gospel of Mark (T&T Clark, 2022), Nat
Arya Aryan's The Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) not only disc
In this conversation (one of my favorite interviews ever), I talk with Noah Askin of the University
James Joyce's Ulysses is filled with all sorts of references that can get in the way of many of its
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (U Pennsylvania Press,
Today I talked to Anna Hogeland about her new novel The Long Answer (Riverhead Books, 2022). Hogelan
Ariana Huberman's Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production
