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September 9, 2024
My Teenage Son Thinks the World Is Falling Apart. I’ve Changed How I Talk to Him About It. Within our marriage, my wife and I have a clash of cultures, which means we talk to...
August 29, 2024
The National Gallery of Jamaica announced on Friday that the curator Ashley James would organize this year’s Kingston Biennial, a showcase of artists from the Caribbean and...
August 28, 2024
In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers archives of everyday writing from the British empire. Mukhopadhyay...
August 14, 2024
In the face of institutional and economic pressures that privilege the “supra-disciplinary” organization of knowledge and emphasize “humanism” broadly conceived, Jonathan...
August 12, 2024
Ronald Paulson, YC ’52 and GRD ’58, a distinguished scholar of eighteenth-century literature and art, died on August 7th at the age of 94 in his home in Baltimore, MD. An...
July 8, 2024
An epiphany isn’t always heralded by trumpets or bolts of lightning. I once had a flash of clarity while unlocking my bike: As if I had also unlocked my mind, I suddenly knew...
July 8, 2024
One day in the mid-1940s, in the quiet French city of Poitiers, the Surrealist painter André Masson was invited by his doctor to take a look at a curious medical specimen:...