How Christianity Killed the Pagan Gods
A review of Larry Hurtado’s Why on Earth Did Anyone Become a Christian in the First Three Centuries? and Destroyer of the gods:
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Neo-Latin Seizes its Day
A review of Victoria Moul’s edited collection A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature French departments do not lavish attention on the golden era of
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Difference and Humanity Among Christians in Indian Slums
Liana Chua Reviews Nathaniel Roberts’ To Be Cared For Recently, a certain meme made the rounds on my (admittedly anthropologist-heavy) social media feed.
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Landscapes of the Soul
A review of Angel Hill Victorian culture—permeated with spiritualists and séances—concerned itself with death on a personal and intimate level. The public readily
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The Alt-Right Apocalypse
Blake Smith in Hindu Eschatology and the Reactionary Mind The election of Trump heralds a “Dark Age” of ignorance and violence, warn standard-bearers
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Shakespeare’s Bodies Onstage
A review of Early Modern Actors & Shakespeare’s Theatre: Thinking with the Body I think most of my students don’t find Shakespeare very
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Muslims and the Making of America
First Impressions #104: Amir Hussain on Muslims and the Making of America There has never been an America without Muslims, and they have
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Leonard Schwartz & Kathleen Eamon Toward a Poetics of the Middle East Crisis
Poet Leonard Schwartz and philosopher Kathleen Eamon discuss Schwartz’s new book “The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Middle East Crisis.”
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Is Islamist violence any worse?
On the morning of September 16th, 1920, a horse-drawn carriage pulled up in front JP Morgan Bank on 23 Wall Street, right at
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Is There Racism in Heaven?
Nick Cave’s Until at MASS MoCA Until by Nick Cave, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, on view through September 4, 2017. Nick Cave
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