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BRUCE FUDGE | Impostures is ostensibly the translation of a twelfth-century Arabic text...

ABRAM VAN ENGEN | In her 2004 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel Gilead, Marilynne Robinson includes an odd scene...

JENNA PHILLIPS | In the wake of the plague outbreak of the mid-fourteenth century, a Florentine physician named Tommaso del Garbo...

TIMOTHY LARSEN | While the season of Christmas often brings out the best in people, somehow the subject of Christmas does not...

DAVID BIALE | Heinrich Heine was the first Jew to become a cultural icon in Germany...

MATTHEW A. BENTON | American social unrest after George Floyd’s death (and Breonna Taylor’s, and Ahmaud Arbery’s, and Jacob Blake’s...

Geoffrey Khan, Hindy Najman, and Ishay Rosen-Zvi The Forum provides a home for substantial original and creative works of scholarship...

PHILIP BALL | The British biologist Peter Medawar called science the art of the soluble.

ILAN BENATTAR | The street signs are often tri-lingual: Arabic, French, and Amazigh, the latter being written in the Tifinagh alphabet...

JOHN WILSON | In the early age of COVID-19, I got to sit down with John Wilson to talk about his work as an editor...

ABDUL MANAN BHAT | Poetry gatherings have a magic of nearness, an immediacy and intimacy of sorts...

JOHN INAZU | The Supreme Court has strengthened an important constitutional protection for religious institutions...