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Twelve Most Read Pieces of 2020

December 26, 2020
  A Muslim Reflection on COVID-19   The Cry of Merlin: Carl Jung and the Insanity of Reason  White Enough? Race in America ... [Read More]

The Jewish Evangelion: A Resistance Polemic on the Margins

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020
Shlomo Zuckier on reading from the margins Central to Christian theology is the concept of the “evangelion” (εὐαγγέλιον), literally the good news, used ... [Read More]

Heinrich Heine: A Life of Contradictions

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020
David Biale on George Prochnik Heinrich Heine was the first Jew to become a cultural icon in Germany. While Moses Mendelssohn achieved fame ... [Read More]

Al-Ḥarīrī’s Fifty Tales: The Tongues of God and Man

December 18, 2020
Bruce Fudge on al-Ḥarīrī translated by Michael Cooperson Impostures is ostensibly the translation of a twelfth-century Arabic text entitled “The Maqāmas.” Nobody knows ... [Read More]

Medieval Wisdom for Mental Health in COVID-19

December 18, 2020
Jenna Phillips on Boccaccio in Quarantine In the wake of the plague outbreak of the mid-fourteenth century, a Florentine physician named Tommaso del ... [Read More]

The Many True Meanings of Christmas

December 18, 2020
Timothy Larsen on Christmas While the season of Christmas often brings out the best in people, somehow the subject of Christmas does not.  ... [Read More]

Marilynne Robinson’s Everyday Saints

December 18, 2020
Abram Van Engen on Marilynne Robinson In her 2004 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel Gilead, Marilynne Robinson includes an odd scene. The narrator, an old, ... [Read More]

What Is Soft Matter?

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020
Philip Ball on Tom McLeish The British biologist Peter Medawar called science the art of the soluble. It’s an apt characterization, recognizing that ... [Read More]

Inaugural Poet? An Open Letter to President-elect Joe Biden

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020
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 ... [Read More]

Hebrew Philological Practices from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020
Geoffrey Khan, Hindy Najman, and Ishay Rosen-Zvi The Forum provides a home for substantial original and creative works of scholarship with the goal ... [Read More]

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