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PAUL MICHAEL KURTZ | If “all men are either Jews or Greeks,” as Heinrich Heine had it

LEAH SILVIEUS | I first encountered Van Gogh’s The Church in Auvers–sur-Oise amid a spiritual crisis the summer I turned 21.

SARAH RUDEN | The shock of mourning in the face of the world going on as usual is a commonplace in literature, and we verify that shock

SAMUEL LONCAR | We live everyday on the brink of the abyss. Artists feel this. They smell darkness, inhale light.

STANLEY DESER | In 1941, aged ten, I came to the US with my parents as a refugee from France.

AMIT MAJMUDAR | Among the Quadi, on the river Gran. Both the Meditations and the Gita offer a statement of place.

ERICA WRIGHT | At seven months pregnant, I’ve never felt less like Mother Earth. At least not like most of the depictions.

BENJAMIN SCHREIER | Resentful and tacit hostility persists as an enduring, though not particularly productive, academic affect.

SAMUEL LONCAR | It’s coming, believe me, and soon. Of course it will not ‘improve’ the world

AARON W. HUGHES AND RUSSEL T. MCCUTCHEON | In the once well-known (and still cited) appendix to his 1912 book

EVAN F. KUEHN | In 2013 I attended a dinner hosted by the Lumen Christi Institute, a center for Catholic thought adjacent to the University

STEVE MASON | If we leave biblical and New Testament authors out of the frame, Flavius Josephus (37–100+ CE)