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Ocean Vuong: Poetry, Bodies, and Stillness. Alexandra Barylski interviews Ocean Vuong

December 21, 2018December 21, 2018

Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which was a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the Whiting ... [Read More]

How I Became a Jewsuit

December 7, 2018December 7, 2018

Sarit Kattan Gribetz Reflects on Jewish-Christian Difference in the 21st Century In 1962, my grandfather, a Swiss Jew from Zurich, sent a letter ... [Read More]

Antisemitism Is Our Problem

October 28, 2018October 28, 2018

Editor Samuel Loncar Reflects on Christianity’s Antisemitic Legacy Tree of Life Synagogue Daniel Stein Joyce Fienberg Richard Gottfried Rose Mallinger Jerry Rabinowitz brothers, ... [Read More]

Neo-Donatists in Eden

May 25, 2018May 29, 2018

Ed Simon on what to think of immoral artists Edmund Spenser knew how to turn a phrase. His vision, exemplified by his epic The ... [Read More]

A Future for a Handful of Hours

April 27, 2018

Poet Rosebud Ben-Oni on the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, promises, and a love that keeps us strangers It was not until our very ... [Read More]

Beyond Borders: America, Immigration, and the Future of Information

February 2, 2018September 17, 2019

Editor Samuel Loncar’s Vision for Freedom and Depth in the Digital Age What defines us is not our leaders or our borders. A ... [Read More]

“The Rights and Wrongs of Resistance”: Shakespeare and Politics

January 5, 2018January 5, 2018

Andrew S. Brown on Peter Lake’s How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage On February 7, 1601, William Shakespeare was enlisted into a ... [Read More]