All Essays

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  Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

  Chapter one of Aslan's forthcoming book

  Reza AslanJul 11, 2013
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  Post-Scarcity Economics

  Why are some pundits and economists still enamored of austerity?

  Tom StreithorstJul 11, 2013

  • Economics and Finance

• Love and Loneliness: Adult Authors of Y.A. and Children’s Literature

  'Serious' authors who have written Y.A./Children's lit

  Jul 10, 2013
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  Through a Glass, Always: Abbas Kiarostami’s "Like Someone in Love"

  On Abbas Kiarostami’s film 'Like Someone in Love'

  Lindsay TurnerJul 8, 2013
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  Egypt’s Last Day of Democracy

  Waiting for the end.

  Carol Berger, Marie-Jeanne BergerJul 6, 2013
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  Poets at the Movies (Part 3): The Lunar Mice of My Generation

  J. M. Tyree, Michael McGriffJul 5, 2013
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  In the Words of Sparks

  Ron and Russell MaelJul 4, 2013
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  Wanted: 2016 Presidential Candidates

  Does the American Left take itself seriously enough to get involved in the 2016 presidential election?

  Tom GallagherJul 4, 2013
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  An Aesthetics of Earliness

  On poets Hamilton, Riviere, Hazzard, McLarney, and Cronk

  Deryn Rees-JonesJul 3, 2013
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  Brazil: The Ground Shakes in the Country of Inequalities and Paradoxes

  Rebellion in the streets, social media, and progress.

  Luiz E. Soares, Magdalena EdwardsJul 1, 2013
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  Seize the Day: Bellow on Film

  Reviewing the attempts to put Saul Bellow’s novels on film

  Peter RainerJul 1, 2013
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  At War with the Obvious, Obviously

  Geoff NicholsonJun 30, 2013
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  “The Very Stuff of Life”: BBC’s “Call the Midwife”

  Stephanie BowerJun 30, 2013
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  Dostoevsky, Inequality, and Tsarnaev’s Humanity

  Pressure cookers.

  Elizabeth StokerJun 29, 2013

• How to Win at Hopscotch: The 50th Anniversary of Julio Cortázar’s Novel

  The 50th Anniversary of Julio Cortázar's 'Hopscotch'

  Jun 28, 2013
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  Listening to Vampire Weekend in Istanbul

  From picaresque to modernist — a shift in the band's songwriting

  Kaya GençJun 28, 2013