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Jewish Girls in Medieval Egypt
AMIT GVARYAHU | Eve Krakowski’s masterful new book shows how minority community concerns are not modern preoccupations...
Oct 11, 2018
Seeing the Forest but Missing the Trees
NILS H. KORSVOLL | Philology and text-critical studies traditionally see manuscripts as repositories of traces and clues to discovering...
Jul 19, 2018
“Property of a gentleman”: The market of ancient manuscripts and the problem of provenance
ROBERTA MAZZA | I am a papyrologist...
Jul 5, 2018
A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry
CIAHNAN DARRELL | Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque...
Apr 12, 2018
Superman is a Glatt Goy
EDDY PORTNOY | Efn a zeml un aroys shpringt a yid is a Yiddish expression that conveys that no matter where you go, you’ll find a Jew...
Oct 15, 2013
How Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy Helped to Invent the South
NICK RIPATRAZONE | In “Parker’s Back,” the titular character decides to get a new tattoo to please his fundamentalist wife...
Oct 15, 2013
Looking to the Medieval to Understand Modern Art
NANCY THEBAUT | What could Cimabue’s 1280 panel painting, Madonna and Child Surrounded by Angels, and Louis Blériot’s airplane from 1909 possibly have to do with one another?...
Jul 15, 2013
Searching for the Meaning of “Russian”
SIMON RABINOVITCH | In St. Petersburg the Russian Museum stands next to the Russian Museum of Ethnography...
Jul 1, 2013
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