Why would René Descartes, the father of modern rationalist philosophy, choose “meditations”—a term and genre associated with religious discourse and practice—for the title of his magnum opus that lays the metaphysical foundations... Read more »
At no point in the past 400 years has anyone campaigned for more stories about posh people in country houses. It wasn’t as though I had spotted a gap in the market. At times when I was... Read more »
The Irish author Paul Murray has won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold prize for The Bee Sting, a comic family saga set in rural Ireland. Murray was announced as the winner at... Read more »
“Et tu, Brute? Et tu, Sam? Et tu, Zink of the Zinky-Dink Clan? Et tu, Nip-Nip and Nip-Nun? Et tu, et tu, everyone!” Source link Read more »
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. For centuries, the bildungsroman, or novel of education, has offered a window into a... Read more »
Date and Time March 28, 20241:00–3:00 p.m. ET Additional session dates June 5, 2024, 3:00–5:00 p.m. ET August 30, 2024, 12:00–2:00 p.m. ET December 3, 2024, 2:00–4:00 p.m. ET Overview Are you interested... Read more »
There is an academic cottage industry on the “Jewish Freud,” aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This... Read more »
In socialist Eastern Europe, radio simultaneously produced state power and created the conditions for it to be challenged. As the dominant form of media in Czechoslovakia from 1945 until 1969, radio constituted... Read more »
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s YA book Red Riding Hood was a New York Times #1 bestseller that was published worldwide in 38 editions and 15 languages, and her brand-spanking-new novel Alice Sadie Celine was... Read more »