Twelve Most Read Pieces of 2020
A Muslim Reflection on COVID-19 The Cry of Merlin: Carl Jung and the Insanity of Reason White Enough? Race in America
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The Jewish Evangelion: A Resistance Polemic on the Margins
Shlomo Zuckier on reading from the margins Central to Christian theology is the concept of the “evangelion” (εὐαγγέλιον), literally the good news, used
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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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Al-Ḥarīrī’s Fifty Tales: The Tongues of God and Man
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
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Medieval Wisdom for Mental Health in COVID-19
Jenna Phillips on Boccaccio in Quarantine In the wake of the plague outbreak of the mid-fourteenth century, a Florentine physician named Tommaso del
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The Many True Meanings of Christmas
Timothy Larsen on Christmas While the season of Christmas often brings out the best in people, somehow the subject of Christmas does not.
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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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What Is Soft Matter?
Philip Ball on Tom McLeish The British biologist Peter Medawar called science the art of the soluble. It’s an apt characterization, recognizing that
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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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Hebrew Philological Practices from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Geoffrey Khan, Hindy Najman, and Ishay Rosen-Zvi The Forum provides a home for substantial original and creative works of scholarship with the goal
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