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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]

Decolonizing Philosophy: Samuel Loncar Interviews Carlos Fraenkel and Peter Adamson about Islam, Reason, and Religion

December 21, 2018December 21, 2018
We think of philosophy today as an austere, secular, and narrowly academic enterprise. Because of its secularity and associations with atheism, many religious ... [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]

Holy Humanitarians: Controversies in Christian Philanthropy

December 6, 2018December 7, 2018
 David C. Kirkpatrick reviews Heather D. Curtis’ Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid Many American evangelicals encounter the faces and stories of children ... [Read More]

Byzantine Worship in Captivity

December 6, 2018December 7, 2018
Valentina Covaci reviews Daniel Galadza Liturgy and Byzantinization in Jerusalem The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is far from the composed reverence ... [Read More]

The Wandering You: Jewish & American Identity

November 23, 2018
Erin Faigin on Shari Rabin’s Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America  It was the opinion of Edwards, that the ... [Read More]

Crime and Consciousness in Modern Mexico

November 23, 2018
Matteo Cantarello on Pablo Piccato’s A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico Today, crime speaks a universal language. Every day and ... [Read More]

The Critics versus Queen

November 14, 2018November 14, 2018
If we’re lucky, we’ve killed a man. A self that has to pass away for something new to be born. People are buying ... [Read More]

Does Law Disdain Literature?

November 9, 2018
Andrew Kau on The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 In a 2014 interview with The Harvard Gazette Stephen Greenblatt recounted his ... [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]

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