Roman police investigated John Keats shortly before his death, newly discovered 19th-century archive documents reveal. Keats scholar Alessandro Gallenzi discovered an entry in Roman police registers about the poet, under the misspelt... Read more »
“The media have a lot to answer for!” Source link Read more »
Wojnarowicz’s first break came in the summer of 1980, when SoHo News published a centerfold of his photographic series “Rimbaud in New York.” The series was inspired by the artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest’s... Read more »
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Source link Read more »
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 »