The Challenge of Casanova
September 22, 2023
Leo Damrosch— Everyone knows that Casanova was a seducer. He belongs to that rare company of mortals whose personal names have floated free from history, and we know what a… READ MORE
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A Resistant Model of Peoplehood
July 20, 2023
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi— A Brief Overview of Ezra-Nehemiah My fascination with Ezra-Nehemiah was initially sparked by my teacher, mentor, and friend Kent H. Richards, whose seminar on the subject I… READ MORE
The Last Days of Mankind
February 14, 2023
Karl Kraus— EPILOGUE The Final Night Battlefield. Craters. Smoke clouds. Starless night. The horizon is a wall of flames. Corpses. Dying soldiers. Men and women in gas masks appear. A… READ MORE
Roses, Routine, and Typhoon Weather: Excerpt from Yield
June 21, 2022
In this excerpt from Yield: The Journal of an Artist, the late Anne Truitt‘s final volume of published journals spanning Winter 2001 to Spring 2002, the sculptor muses about love,… READ MORE
Desirable Body
November 20, 2018
Hubert Haddad; Translated by Alyson Waters— One autumn morning, Cédric awoke with a start and sat up in bed as daylight filtered through the blinds. He must have been dreaming… READ MORE
The Practicalities of Presidential Prosecution
September 19, 2017
Brian C. Kalt— Practicalities As they were designing the presidency, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 discussed hypothetical criminal presidents. In recent decades—the era of the independent counsel—things… READ MORE
When Healthcare Is About ‘Parts and Money’
March 21, 2017
Abraham M. Nussbaum— As you become a physician, you feel as if you are learning to see people as a compendium of parts and a source of income: parts and… READ MORE
Defining the Bigot
October 19, 2016
Stephen Eric Bronner— Understanding the bigot calls for a phenomenological sketch that explains why prejudice appeals to him, how he chooses his targets, and what impulses are common to his… READ MORE
Sneak Peek: The Long March of Pop
July 18, 2014
We are very excited to publish, this October, a new work by eminent art historian and art critic Thomas Crow. The paradigm-changing book challenges existing narratives about the rise of… READ MORE
Sneak Peek from Stephen Houston, The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence
January 8, 2014
In March, we will publish a groundbreaking new book about Maya animism and how their belief system informed their choices in and uses of artistic materials. Renowned Mayanist scholar Stephen… READ MORE
What If Julian the Apostate Had Lived?