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Tom McLeish In memoriam: Professor Tom McLeish FRS (May 1, 1962 – February 27, 2023). Read as a PDF For at least a century, both public...

RUSHAIN ABBASI | So much and yet so little is conveyed by the word “modernity.” On the one hand, it possesses the sovereign-like capacity to

MARK C. TAYLOR | At the age of ninety, Cormac McCarthy has published a remarkable two-volume novel that is, in my judgment, his best work.

TOM McLEISH | Science is more about questions than answers, and that the critical imaginative move in science is to conceive of the creative

BRAD HOLDEN | I should start with a confession—two, actually. The first is that I very recently purchased tickets for the lottery.

TOM McLEISH | My grandmother actually was an important influence on me. She had done a degree at London University in the twenties

SOPHUS HELLE | Literacy begins with lexicons. An ancient Egyptian text named The Onomasticon of Amenope opens with a splendid promise

JAMES A. DIAMOND | The problem that continues to vex is how to wrest meaning from creatures that are mythological figments

REBECCA KNEALE GOULD | Alda Balthrop-Lewis is not the first to focus on Thoreau with attention to Thoreau’s religion.

ISABEL TORAL-NIEHOFF | The emergence of Arabic history-writing in early Islam is a complex phenomenon.

ALDA BALTHROP-LEWIS | At various moments in the 20th century, some corners of US academic culture were blinded to religion

This forum on Alda Balthrop-Lewis' Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism. Cambridge University...