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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 →
by guest contributor Yung In Chae We all know the story of Man the Hunter: thousands of years ago, cavemen went out and hunted food for cavewomen and cavechildren, who sat idly at home and depended on this masculine feat… Continue Reading →
Emily: Timothy Garton Ash, Rhodes hasn’t fallen, but the protesters are making me rethink Britain’s past (Guardian) Cara Delay, Flowers and Lady Charlotte: Talking about Menstruation, Past and Present Lida Maxwell, Does Love Have a Politics? (LARB) Dana Goldstein, Sterilization’s… Continue Reading →
by guest contributor Mike Rottmann Almost one year after the end of war, on July 20, 1946, a leading executive of the Department of Education in the State of Baden sent a letter to the President of Heidelberg University: With… Continue Reading →
By guest contributor Barbara Heritage Reading—how we read, what we read, and where we read—has attracted a great deal of attention during the last decade. From the pages of The New York Times to those of specialized scholarly journals, we… Continue Reading →
