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Spencer: “Human beings,” wrote Lytton Strachey in the preface to Eminent Victorians (1918), “are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past” (5). And he was as good as his word. Eminent Victorians is indeed a remarkable… Continue Reading →
By Contributing Writer Isabella Lores-Chavez The objects in the painted cupboard by Antonio Pérez de Aguilar are under lock and key. Vessels and foodstuffs from diverse origins coexist behind a pane of glass that encloses the cupboard. The key sitting… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Jake Newcomb Several scholars published essential works in the past decade that excavate the history of mass incarceration in the United States. Scholarship by historians Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Heather Ann Thompson, and Kelly Lytle-Hernandez have helped to… Continue Reading →
by contributing writer Bart Zantvoort What is the cause of social alienation, the increasing number of burnouts and depressions, and the failure of political institutions in our late-modern times? According to the German sociologist Hartmut Rosa, all of these problems… Continue Reading →
Interview conducted by Richard Calis and Lillian Datchev For this podcast, we spoke with Dr. Pamela Long about her latest book, Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome (Chicago University Press, 2018)…. Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Marco Menin Paul et Virginie, or the Misfortune of Religious Enlightenment The first time I read Paul et Virginie I was nearly ten years old, attending elementary school in a small town in Northern Italy. Among the… Continue Reading →
By Simon Brown In 1908, the humanities were in peril, as they so often seem to be. That year Irving Babbitt, a professor of French literature at Harvard, published a collection of essays he had written over the previous two… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Audrey Borowski In his L’Oraison funèbre en l’honneur des citoyens tombés of August 10, 1792, the French writer and priest Cousin de Grainville preached a funeral oration full of revolutionary fervour for those killed during a recent insurrection…. Continue Reading →
Sarah: As the year hurtles towards its close, I’ve spent more time reading than writing. It has been a positively luxurious experience that has nevertheless left me with the conundrum of having far too many pieces to put forward here…. Continue Reading →
Over the week from Christmas to New Year, we’ll be taking a brief hiatus from our regular publishing schedule. To tide you over until 2019, we’ll be publishing two installments of holiday reading recommendations. The first is below. In the… Continue Reading →
