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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 →
by guest contributor Sonja Ostrow One can hardly open a newspaper without being inundated by graphs and charts offering up the latest poll numbers on presidential candidates. Almost as prominent are poll results covering attitudes toward everything from religion to… Continue Reading →
by contributing editor Brooke Palmieri The debate over whether reading is good or bad for your health is as old as the habit itself. In The Anatomy of Melancholy reading and scholarship sometimes cause, sometimes cure, Robert Burton’s depression; the… Continue Reading →
Emily: Amit Chaudhuri, The Real Meaning of Rhodes Must Fall (Guardian) David Mitchell, The Trouble with People Who Lived in the Past (Guardian) Andrew Dickson, Great Britain, Strange and Familiar (New Yorker) David W. Dunlap, Discovery of Burial Ground Backs… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor David Kearns Since his death on 13 February 2016, much has been written on Antonin Scalia’s legacy as a Supreme Court justice. A significant strand within this literature has focused on Scalia’s enduring fascination—both in his judgments… Continue Reading →
by contributing editor Erin McGuirl “What is the I Ching?” was the title of Eliot Weinberger’s recent review of two new translations of the I Ching. It’s an excellent question, and in his review he expertly summarizes the history of… Continue Reading →
Emily: John Sutherland, George Orwell’s master – and spymaster? (TLS) — plenty of problems with its treatment of homoeroticism in English single-sex education, but worth reading all the same In other “British homosexuality history is unexpectedly relevant” news, shades of… Continue Reading →
