by guest contributor Deborah Schlein When Greek medical texts were transmitted and translated in the ʿAbbasid capital of Baghdad in the ninth and tenth centuries, they paved the way for original Arabic medical sources which built off Greek humoral theory… Continue Reading →
John: Matthew Bevis, “Supping on Horrors” (Harper’s) Lina Bolzani, “Torna il vero «Furioso»” (Il Sole 24 Ore) Ian Buruma, “Le Carré’s Other Cold War” (The Nation) Alexander Cammann, »Der Überlebenskünstler« (Die Zeit) Christoph Charle, François Euvé and Gisèle Sapiro, «… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Spencer J. Weinreich Act III, scene iii of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (c.1596) sees the imprisoned Antonio following his creditor, Shylock, through the streets, in hopes of mercy. Unmoved, Shylock expostulates, “I do wonder, /… Continue Reading →
Emily: Some great historical statistics about education in the UK (House of Commons Library) Fintan O’Toole, The Easter Rising: Powerful and Useless (NYRB) Akash Kapur, The Return of the Utopians (New Yorker) Andy Seal, Jamie Doward, From Jane Austen to… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Disha Karnad Jani “Why We Appear”: so begins the September-October 1931 issue of the Anti-Imperialist Review, the official journal of the League Against Imperialism and for National Independence (LAI). This organization was founded in 1927 and brought… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Audrey Borowski Paradox features prominently in Leibniz’s thought process, and yet has failed to receive much attention within mainstream scholarship. The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, however, devoted his book The Logic of Sense to the analysis of… Continue Reading →
Emily: The first UK production in nearly 30 years of Tony Harrison’s The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus (Finborough Theatre) Emily Nussbaum, ‘Fleabag,’ an Original Bad-Girl Comedy (New Yorker) Professor Cottom’s Grad School Guidance, a great document for anyone considering applying for… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Rachel Q. Welsh In medieval Castile, between about 1050 and 1300, local municipal lawcodes, or fueros, looked to the body for proof of rape. These fueros provided detailed and practical sets of laws and privileges to newly… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Anna Toledano Autobiography is an art form that only few have mastered. The newly reopened permanent exhibition at the Musée de l’Homme (Museum of Mankind) in Paris does a remarkable job of writing the book on our… Continue Reading →
John: Tim Barker, “The Congress for Cultural Freedom’s Ultimate Failure” (The New Republic) The Economist (C.G.), “Comrade, where are you today?” The Economist, “Patricians of Parchment” Marie Gaille, « Impudique pudeur » (La vie des idées) Claudio Giunta, “Una sommessa… Continue Reading →
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