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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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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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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Hebrew Literature and The Fate of American Hebraism
Yeshua G. B. Tolle Until recently, several plastic tubs and cardboard boxes sat gathering dust in the basement of DePauw University’s spiritual life
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Climate Change: From Gilgamesh to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Sophus Helle on Martin Puchner F or the past four years, two tracks have run through my life. One is Gilgamesh, an epic
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The Origin of Jewish American Literary Studies
Benjamin Schreier Resentful and tacit hostility persists as an enduring, though not particularly productive, academic affect. But I wonder if expressed antagonism—having principled
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Spiritual Bridges: Across Time and Space
Aqsa Ijaz on Thomas Harrison Bridges, of all kinds, have traditionally represented our desire to know and connect with what’s on the other
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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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