Transcript Dr. Lisanby: The origins of electroconvulsive therapy date way back, I’m talking decades, really, the mid-30s, actually 1930s. Even though the origins were based on theories that we now know are... Read more »
The Sociology of Literature is a pithy primer on the history, affordances, and potential futures of this growing field of study, which finds its origins in the French Enlightenment, and its most... Read more »
Interiority and Law presents a groundbreaking reassessment of a medieval Jewish classic, Baḥya ibn Paquda’s Guide to the Duties of the Hearts. Michaelis reads this work anew as a revolutionary intervention in... Read more »
A mystery surrounds the historic Lion House and its basement passageway, in Columbus, Georgia. One story imagines a subterranean escape route designed to spirit away white settlers when the Creek tribes attacked... Read more »
A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month. The post On Our Nightstands: September 2022 appeared first on Public Books. Source link Read more »
As the environment changes, so too will our politics. But how both will change and how these transformations interact with one another are still being decided. Consider environmental engineers who work with... Read more »
“How I made the book determined the story that was created … Once you have enough of something, a narrative can emerge.” 12 tables; 300 novels, 1,500 pages of nature description: This... Read more »
“It is now urgent to dare to know oneself, to confess to oneself what one is, to ask oneself what one wants to be.” —Suzanne Césaire, Tropiques When I was a... Read more »
What better way to kick off the holiday season than by announcing our subscribers’ best-loved books of 2023? The BookBrowse Top 20 are determined by a significant number of votes —... Read more »