Urban Afterlives – by Dana Robinson
Dana Robinson on Hendrik W. Dey’s Afterlife of the Roman City The fall of Rome was an urban affair. Alaric’s sack of the
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Religion, Culture & the Arts
Feeding that Infinite Abyss Within – By John David Penniman
John David Penniman on Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine “Am I really all the things that are outside
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Gothic on Trial – By James Alexander Cameron
James Alexander Cameron on Stephen Murray’s Plotting Gothic and Jonathan Foyle’s Lincoln Cathedral “Gothic.” Originally coined as a term of exclusion — things
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“A deeply textured trove of learning and reference”: The Gift of David Jones – By Francesca Brooks
Francesca Brooks on Ariane Bankes and Paul Hills, The Art of David Jones It was in the afternoon sunshine at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
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Babylon’s Imperial Allure – By Phillip M. Sherman
Phillip M. Sherman on Erin Runions’s The Babylon Complex Mythology matters. The stories we tell ourselves, individually and collectively, shape our experience of
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Wall Street Goes to War: Hardhat Politics and the Culture War of Everything since the 1960s – L. Benjamin Rolsky
L. Benjamin Rolsky on Stephen Prothero’s Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When they Lose Elections) On the morning of May 8,
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How to Be Human in a Machine World
Samuel Loncar on the future of humans in a world dominated by computers Humans seem to relish the prospect of their own extinction.
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Architecture, Ascetics, and Agency – By Katherine Kasdorf
Katherine Kasdorf on Tamara Sears’s Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings In a village in central India, two medieval buildings stand side by side.
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Is There a Message In the Music? – By Anthony B. Pinn
Anthony B. Pinn on Robert Darden’s Nothing But Love in God’s Water Think about the following scene: Enslaved Africans physically abused, mentally tortured,
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Pavement, Piety, and Prophetic Art – By Karla Cavarra Britton
Karla Cavarra Britton on Flora Samuel and Inge Linder-Gaillard’s Sacred Concrete Le Corbusier, the Franco-Swiss architect, artist, graphic designer, writer, polemicist and mystic,
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