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Our Days Are Like Full Years
A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to...
Dead from the Waist Down
Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination
At the end of the sixteenth century, scholars and intellectuals were seen as Faustian magicians, dangerous and sexy. By the nineteenth century, they were perceived as dusty and dried up, “dead from the waist down,” as...
Psychoanalysis and Religious Experience
There has been for a long time a powerful opposition between psychoanalysis and religious thinking, both because of the anti-religious attitudes and writings of Sigmund Freud and because of the hostility of...
The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son
The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity
The near-sacrifice and miraculous restoration of a beloved son is a central but largely overlooked theme in both Judaism and Christianity, celebrated in biblical texts on Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, Joseph, and Jesus. In this...