Category What We’re Reading

Madeline: Eliot Weinburger, “What is the I Ching?” (NYRB) Matthew Caines, “Matthew Arnold (and other Victorian Big Heads)” (TLS Blog) Diane Purkiss, “Magic and the rise of science” (TLS) James Meek, “Robin Hood in a Time of Austerity” (LRB) Sarah… Continue Reading →

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Emily: Tamson Pietsch, On institutions (and… Continue Reading →

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Emily: John Morgan, US PhD graduate… Continue Reading →

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Emily: My department is hiring a… Continue Reading →

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Emily: David Olusoga, Topple the Cecil… Continue Reading →

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Emily: Our very own Erin McGuirl,… Continue Reading →

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Madeline: Jonathan Rée, on James Harris’s… Continue Reading →

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Emily: Peter Mandler, The humanities are… Continue Reading →

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Madeline: Gary Wills, “Splendors of the… Continue Reading →

Here are a few interesting articles and pieces we found around the web this week. If you come across something that other intellectual historians might enjoy, please let us know in the comments section. Madeline: Alberto Manguel, “From Alexandria to… Continue Reading →