Why Architecture Matters
February 17, 2015
In Why Architecture Matters, Paul Goldberger, who holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City, takes readers on a remarkable architectural… READ MORE
Category: Humanities
10 Books for Black History Month
February 13, 2015
February is Black History Month! It’s a time, as President Ford put it, to “honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”… READ MORE
Clinging to Hope Amid the Carnage: A Response to Violent Extremism
February 4, 2015
Sherman A. Jackson— “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad!” This was the cry of the Parisian gunmen fleeing the scene of what they had to know would spell their ultimate… READ MORE
Celebrate National Readathon Day with 8 Books You Can Read in a Day
January 24, 2015
Happy National Readathon Day! The National Book Foundation has organized the holiday to promote a love of reading and to make sure that the book worm doesn’t become an endangered species…. READ MORE
Winning Playlists from the History of Rock n Roll in Ten Songs Contest
January 23, 2015
After Greil Marcus shared a collection of songs that for him defined rock n roll in The History of Rock n Roll in Ten Songs, we gave you the chance… READ MORE
“Lily of the Valley” by Fady Joudah
January 2, 2015
Fady Joudah, Palestinian-American, physician, celebrated poet and translator of poetry, and winner of the 2007 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for his collection Earth in the Attic, discusses the… READ MORE
David and Moses: The Men, the Myths, the Legends
December 19, 2014
David Wolpe— David represents one strand of the Jewish tradition, one that these days causes so much pride and angst and generates so much news. Jewish religious history is divided,… READ MORE
A Conversation with David Albahari
December 4, 2014
Award-winning translator Ellen Elias-Bursac recently had the chance to talk with Serbian writer and translator David Albahari about Globetrotter, her latest translation of one of Albahari’s novels. Ellen Elias-Bursac: How did… READ MORE
Marian Schwartz on Translating Tolstoy
November 25, 2014
We had the chance to sit down with prolific translator Marian Schwartz to talk about her latest translation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. She touches on the joys and challenges of… READ MORE
Reflections on the World of My Father
November 22, 2014
Nina Howe— The experience of editing the book, A Voice Still Heard, a selection of essays by my late father Irving Howe, was for me an exploration into my father’s… READ MORE
A New Audience for the World’s First Author