Alan Trachtenberg, the Neil Gray Jr. Professor of English and professor of American studies emeritus, scholar of the cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, and one...
The Humanities After COVID-19
What happens when hiring dies?
Looking at Epic Poetry Through 21st-Century Eyes
New translations of the “Aeneid,” “Beowulf,” and other ancient stories challenge some of our modern-day ideas.
Democracy on Pause in Pandemic Poland
The ruling party takes advantage of lockdown.
“I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer’s fairy-queen. Pray what is the matter with me?” The plaint of an anonymous reader in 1712 sounds with endearing frankness a...
Screen Share: A College Teacher’s Zoom Journal
– For 15 years, my students and I huddled together in cozy classrooms to study the craft of writing. Then came Covid-19....
This week, the Book Review asked two prominent American poets to write original poems responding to this historic moment in our country. Claudia Rankine, whose poem “Weather...
