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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...

CAROL WAYNE WHITE | There is much to mine and appreciate in Alda Balthrop-Lewis’ capacious rendering of Thoreau’s religiosity.

SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | The fields of rabbinics and ancient Judaism have long asked a tantalizing question.

YESHUA G.B. TOLLE | As I turned the pages of those frail, tattered, overlooked books, I found traces of a familiar desire.

LORRAINE DASTON | Einstein’s 1905 article on special relativity is an article that no respectable physics journal today would print

FREDERICK BEISER | Andrea Wulf’s book Magnificent Rebels is a portrait of the early romantic circle in Jena from 1794 to 1806.

TOM McLEISH | There are distinct signs that the poet John Keats’ Grecian Urn has found its voice again. This is a surprise.