Emily: Matthew Pratt Guterl, The Irish Rebellion that Resonated in Harlem (TNR) Anne Boyd Rioux, Women Writers You Should Know: Constance Fenimore Woolson (The Toast) Rohan Maitzen, What We’re (Really) Talking About When We Talk About “Time to Read” (Novel… Continue Reading →
Can the Nonhuman Speak? Breaking the Chain of Being in the Anthropocene a lecture by Joyce E. Chaplin A syllogism: 1. The environmental crises that go under the name of the Anthropocene represent the most important problems of our generation…. Continue Reading →
by contributing editor Daniel London
by guest contributor Elizabeth Ott Debates about the proper function of public libraries—what readers they should serve, what kinds of reading they should promote, what sorts of books should stock their shelves and (perhaps most importantly) how those books and… Continue Reading →
Emily: I had an ambivalent response to G.W. Bowersock, The Classics: A Subtle New View (NYRB) Jonathan Freedland, Maggie and the Storm over Europe (NYRB) Jonathan Downing, Prophecy and the Southcottian ‘Canon’ (Southcottian Studies) Free Thinking: Evelyn Waugh (BBC Radio… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Elizabeth Biggs I’m sorry not to have been at the Renaissance Society of America Conference in Boston this last weekend. In the spirit of that conference, I want to introduce you to a wonderful renaissance manuscript currently… Continue Reading →
Emily: Lord Byron and the Hebrew Melodies (In Our Time, BBC Radio 4) Jake McAuley, They were rescued as kids in WWII. Now they want to help today’s refugee children. (Washington Post) Daniel Hope, My mentor Yehudi Menuhin (Guardian) Ferdinant… Continue Reading →
The Republic of Letters is knit together not only by virtual connections, but also by interactions in the flesh! As March draws to a close and we look ahead to spring and summer, here are a few events, workshops, exhibitions,… Continue Reading →
by Madeline McMahon Antonio Bosio’s Roma sotterranea was published posthumously in 1634. Bosio’s original manuscript, now in the Biblioteca Vallicelliana, was finally brought to print by the Oratorian scholar Giovanni Severano. The book would have cost a fortune—it was over… Continue Reading →
Emily: Amia Srinivasan, Under Rhodes (LRB) ‘This doubtful day of feast or fast’: Good Friday and the Annunciation (A Clerk of Oxford) Tom Crewe, Aubade Before Breakfast: Balfour and the Souls (LRB) Eric Weitz, Weimar America? (Common Dreams) Sarah Scullin,… Continue Reading →
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