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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Why George MacDonald Matters
Timothy Larsen on the Victorian writer Once upon a time, when young princesses were still plentiful, there nevertheless was a scarcity of children’s
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Marilynne Robinson’s Everyday Saints
Abram Van Engen on Marilynne Robinson In her 2004 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel Gilead, Marilynne Robinson includes an odd scene. The narrator, an old,
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Inaugural Poet? An Open Letter to President-elect Joe Biden
Dear President-elect Joe Biden, You quoted Seamus Heaney, W. B. Yeats and Langston Hughes in your speeches, so we feel certain that you’re
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Mushaira: Islam, Poetry, and South Asia
Abdul Manan Bhat on Ali Khan Mahmudabad Poetry gatherings have a magic of nearness, an immediacy and intimacy of sorts. The intimacy between
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James Wood and The Visionless Age
Samuel Liu on James Wood’s Serious Noticing Perhaps there is no essay by James Wood more thrilling than his piece on metaphor in
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How The Working Class Became Children: The Politics of Kindness in A Victorian Novel
Karen Swallow Prior on Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty March 30 marks the 200th birthday of Anna Sewell, whose only published work, Black Beauty,
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