Palestinian Children’s Literature
N.A. Mansour on Sonia Nimr We do not allow our characters rest. They are called upon to entertain us by darting to and
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Medieval Wisdom for Mental Health in COVID-19
Jenna Phillips on Boccaccio in Quarantine In the wake of the plague outbreak of the mid-fourteenth century, a Florentine physician named Tommaso del
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Houellebecq’s Wager – By Bruno Chaouat
Bruno Chaouat on Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission Recently, French intellectuals have become interested in the unbearable lightness of being oneself, in the paradoxical burden of individual
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“To Celebrate the Best Parts of His Nature:” Fiction and the Discourse of Man – By Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone on Mark Greif’s The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 William Faulkner began his 1950
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Psmith’s Art of Cool: War and Zen in P.G. Wodehouse – By Ted Scheinman
Ted Scheinman on Psmith as philosophe and his spiritual calm Pelham Grenville Wodehouse committed his first act of civil disobedience in the nave
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The Golem and the Jinni: A Conversation with Helene Wecker
Phillip Sherman talks with Helene Wecker about incorporating Jewish and Muslim traditions into her debut novel, The Golem and the Jinni. PS: How
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An Interview with Stephanie Paulsell
Stephanie Paulsell discusses experimental faith and the value of fiction for understanding religion Stephanie Paulsell is Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies
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