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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Poetry
The Mystery of Making: Makoto Fujimura’s Theology of Hope
Leah Silvieus on Makoto Fujimura I first encountered Van Gogh’s The Church in Auvers–sur-Oise amid a spiritual crisis the summer I turned 21.
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The Gita According to Marcus Aurelius
Amit Majmudar 1. Among the Quadi, on the river Gran. Both the Meditations and the Gita offer a statement of place. In the
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The Alchemy of Tuvia Ruebner’s Poetry
Michael Heller on Tuvia Ruebner Tuvia Ruebner is a surviving member of that brilliant generation of Israeli poets, including Yehuda Amichai, Dan Pagis
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When Truth Finds A Home: In The Shelter by Pádraig Ó Tuama
Alexandra Barylski on Pádraig Ó Tuama This is a book about truth. A book about facing the truth of your own life and
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Heinrich Heine: A Life of Contradictions
David Biale on George Prochnik Heinrich Heine was the first Jew to become a cultural icon in Germany. While Moses Mendelssohn achieved fame
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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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The Ramayana and The Birth of Poetry
Amit Majmudar on poetry and the incarnation of the divine. Consider Punch. He wears jester’s red and carries a stick the size of
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The Interim World: The Poetics of Tuvia Ruebner
Rachel Tzvia Back on Tuvia Ruebner I’ve been intensely and intimately engaged with the poetry of Tuvia Ruebner as his English language translator
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