A Nook of Her Own: Virginia Woolf, Class, and the Creative Life
Alexandra Barylski Space is our birthright. So it is imperative that we have some of our own. City dwellers confront this need in
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Science and the Idea of Progress
Peter Harrison Read as a PDF. The history of science, wrote George Sarton in 1936, is “the only history which can illustrate the
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The Apocalyptic Secret of Judaism and Olga Tokarczuk’s “The Books of Jacob”
Elliot R. Wolfson The acclaim for Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob is demonstrated in its receiving the Nike Award, Poland’s top
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Forbidden Hunger: The Rabbis’ Path to Wellness
Yonah Lavery-Yisraeli My Auntie lied about literature, extensively and very well. Sometimes she would take it into her head to gather the kids
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From Nuclear Radiology to The Bhagavad Gita: An Interview with Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar—novelist, poet, translator, essayist, and diagnostic nuclear radiologist—interviewed by Samuel Loncar, Editor-in-Chief of The Marginalia Review of Books. Introduction As a part
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The Ambiguities of Being Muslim and Modern
Rushain Abbasi So much and yet so little is conveyed by the word “modernity.” On the one hand, it possesses the sovereign-like capacity
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Science, Imagination, and Poetry
Tom McLeish In memoriam: Professor Tom McLeish FRS (May 1, 1962 – February 27, 2023). Read as a PDF For at least a
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Cormac McCarthy: The End of the Road
Mark C. Taylor At the age of ninety, Cormac McCarthy has published a remarkable two-volume novel that is, in my judgment, his best
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Science and the Healing of the World: A Conversation with Tom McLeish, Part Two
Tom McLeish in Conversation with Samuel Loncar Tom McLeish FRS, physicist and Emeritus Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics at
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Science Is a Long Story: A Conversation with Tom McLeish, Part One
Tom McLeish in Conversation with Samuel Loncar Tom McLeish FRS, physicist and Emeritus Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics at
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