THE LATEST
Just Plain Forever (2019) by Duke Riley
HOW WE GOT HERE: CONSUMER CAPITALISM AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
BY MARK STOLL
THE INEFFABLE PASSIONS OF LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
BY PAUL B. DONOVAN
PSEUDO-SCIENCE AND POTEMKIN HISTORY
BY MICHAEL K. LAUNER
Annie Leibovitz, Stream of Consciousness (Hauser & Wirth)
ON THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
STEVEN PINKER & TONY SOBRADO
MORAL PARTICULARS IN LITERATURE
WILLIAM VAUGHAN
ELEFTHERIOS MAKEDONAS
Workshop of Joachim Beuckelaer (c. 1533 – c. 1570/4). Kitchen maid preparing meat with Christ in the House of Mary and Martha beyond. Estate of Francesco P. Zuccari.
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
RECLAIMING OUR HUMANITY IN THE AGE OF AI
SILVA KANTAREVA AND JOHN BELL
BREADCRUMBS FOR BIRDS: A SEARCH FOR YOUR OTHER SELF
ROBERT STEWART
A FAIRER HOUSE THAN PROSE: TEACHING EMILY DICKINSON
BRAD CRENSHAW
MAN-DEVIL: THE MIND AND TIMES OF BERNARD MANDEVILLE
ROBERT RICH
POETRY
The Kiss (1969), by Picasso
ZEV SHANKEN
PETER AUSTIN
ROYAL W.F. RHODES
THE LATEST
SONS OF ICARUS: THE RISE & FALLS OF AMERICA’S LITERARY TRINITY
DAVID COMFORT
Bob Silvers, a frame from The 50 Year Argument (2014)THE LEGEND OF THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
STEVE DAVIDSON
Craig McDaniel, Euridyce and Orpheus (Garden of Eden)CRAIG MCDANIEL
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Detail (c. 1490–1510) by Hieronymus Bosch.HIERONYMUS BOSCH NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE ALPS
BERNARD AIKEMA AND FERNANDO CHECA CREMADES
THE CHARTER OF HUMAN NEEDS IN POLITICS
IVAN TYRRELL AND JOHN BELL
ED SIMON
MARIANNE JANACK
“AFTER YOU PAUL AT PONT MIRABEAU”
BY CHRISTINE FRANK
SO YOU THINK I’M THE PROMETHEUS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORLD?
JEAN-LUC BEAUCHARD
CONVERSATIONS: SUSAN BLACKMORE
TONY SOBRADO
PUTIN, COMPATRIOTS, AND FELLOW COUNTRYMEN
D. WILLIAMS, M. YOUNG, AND M. LAUNER
BURYING THE MYSTERY: THE GRAVE OF EDGAR ALLEN POE
KAREN ALKALAY-GUT
MARK IRWIN
ELIZABETH BISHOP’S LABOR OF LOVE: “NORTH HAVEN”
SAM MAGAVERN
RAYMOND WACKS
Churchill with Chamberlain, circa March 24, 1935.WINSTON CHURCHILL AND NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
JOHN BELL
TEACHING MILOSZ: THE EVOLUTION OF A POET
IRA SADOFF
HEATHER MCHUGH
HEATHER MCHUGH
APHORISM AS A LABORATORY OF THINKING
MIKHAIL EPSTEIN
RUPTURES AND SELF-RENEWAL IN THE LIFE OF KIERKEGAARD
PAUL B. DONOVAN
RAYMOND WACKS
FREE, GOD’S SLAVES, OR NEUROLOGICAL ROBOTS?
DAVID COMFORT
POLITICAL FOOTNOTES TO EUSEBIUS
CONTRIBUTION OF THE EARLY CHURCH TO POLITICAL THOUGHT
HAIM MARANTZ
PHILOSOPHY BETWEEN SCIENCE AND MYSTICISM
URIAH KRIEGEL
ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES OF JESUS
FOUR NOVELS
C. FRED ALFORD
KAFKA SERIES
Castle Garden by Paul Klee, 1931.
KAFKA TEACHES ME HOW TO TEACH KAFKA
JAMES MARTEL
ON KAFKA AND WRITING
SEAN SINGER
IS THERE A RELIGIOUS MESSAGE TO KAFKA’S THE CASTLE?
HAIM MARANTZ
THE MESSIAH WHO COMES AND GOES
FRANZ KAFKA ON REDEMPTION, CONSPIRACY AND COMMUNITY
JAMES MARTEL
LAURA ANN REED
KAFKA REMAINS THE JEWISH PROPHET OF OBLIVION
ED SIMON
ART
Wine and Words (detail) by Alan Feltus, 2004.
LANI IRWIN
ALAN FELTUS
CRAIG MCDANIEL
RUSSIA SERIES
RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY, STATE, AND NATION
D. WILLIAMS, M. YOUNG, AND M. LAUNER
THE MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE AND THE WORLD ORDER
T.S.TSONCHEV
THE RHETORICAL USE OF HISTORICAL ANALOGY
D. WILLIAMS, M. YOUNG, AND M. LAUNER
MARIA ARBATOVA AND THE EARLY POST-SOVIET WOMEN’S MOVEMENT
ELISABETH RICH
FROM THE ARCHIVES | 2024 The Tunnels Of Gaza (2024) by Antoine Janot
THE MEDIEVAL MYSTIC PATH TO IMMORTALITY
DAVID COMFORT
“VIVAS TO THOSE WHO HAVE FAIL’D”
TEACHING WALT WHITMAN
STEPHEN HAVEN
WHEN THE COST OF WAR IS MUCH MORE THAN LIVES
CHRISTOPHER THORNTON
WHERE HAVE ALL THE CORINTHIANS GONE?
STEVE DAVIDSON
JOHN BELL
THE "PALE HORSE" OF OLYMPIC CEREMONY
TSONCHO TSONCHEV
THE ECSTATIC TRUTH OF ROMANTIC NEUROSCIENCE
STUART TRENHOLM
AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES WILSON
PAUL WILLETTS
DOSTOYEVSKY’S SOLUTION TO KANT’S PROBLEM OF EVIL
HAIM MARANTZ
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL WON’T GO AWAY
ED SIMON AND RANDALL SULLIVAN
THE ORIGINS OF (POLITICAL) DEMORALIZATION
BRUCE CHAPMAN
ON HOW AN UNKNOWN PUBLISHER IN EDO JAPAN ENTICED THE WORLD
LAURA VIGO
MICHEL FOUCAULT
ALAN ALTANY
PLUTARCH
FROM THE ARCHIVES | 2024
BERNARD STIEGLER
BERNARD STIEGLER: ELEMENTS OF PHARMACOLOGY
AN INTERVIEW WITH FELIX HEIDENREICH AND FLORIAN WEBER-STEIN
CULTURE AND REALITY
T.S.TSONCHEV
DEATH, DIVINITY AND DREAMS
DAVID COMFORT
RON MCFARLAND
THE VILLAGE OF THE WATERWHEELS
JOHN BELL
READING SOLZHENITSYN FOR THE FIRST TIME
HAIM MARANTZ
Philip Larkin with his Rolleiflex, 1957. Photograph courtesy of Frances Lincoln, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group
HEDGEHOGS, DEATH AND THE BEAUTY IN THE MUNDANE
HOW LARKIN CUTS SO DEEP
DANIEL SEIFERT
TO DEAL WITH INEQUALITY, IT MUST BE BETTER UNDERSTOOD
JON D. WISMAN
PHILIP NEWMAN LAWTON
MYTH & TECH
Meiro Koizumi's Prometheus Bound at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, KanazawaPROMETHEUS: A SYMPOSIUM
The widely acclaimed blockbuster film Oppenheimer opens with this caption: "Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity." The film, based on Oppenheimer's biography American Prometheus, is only the latest popular retelling of the ancient Greek myth. The essays, published in The Montreal Review, are the result of a faculty-student workshop held at Virginia Tech in October 2023 to share research and foster conversation about contemporary uses of the myth of Prometheus.
THE STUBBORN AFTERLIVES OF THE PROMETHEUS MYTH
INTRODUCTION BY BRIAN BRITT
BY LORD BYRON
WORKING ON MODERNITY. HANS BLUMENBERG READS PROMETHEUS
BY DANIEL WEIDNER
OPPENHEIMER AS HERMES, GOD OF THE INFORMATION AGE
BY JANELL WATSON
WHY THE MYTH OF PROMETHEUS HAUNTS TALK OF TECHNOLOGY?
BY LEE VINSEL
FRANKEN-MYTHBUSTERS: MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN EXPOSES THE PATRIARCHAL PROMETHEUS
BY SOPHIA SCARFE
UNBINDING MYTH WITH LITERATURE IN SHELLEY, FLAUBERT, AND DU BOIS
BY BRIAN BRITT
PROMETHEUS REDUX: ALIEN PREQUELS, CREATION MYTH, AND THE ENCHANTMENT OF TECHNOSCIENCE
BY ZHANGE NI
PROMETHEANISM, OBSOLESCENCE, AND THE POLITICS OF CONSPIRACY THEORY
BY SAMUEL BECKENHAUER
ESSAYS THE WILD GODS OF BARBARA EHRENREICH AND WILLIAM JAMES
C. FRED ALFORD
HOW TO HAVE A LONG, HAPPY LIFE
STEVE DAVIDSON
ON THE ONGOING ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
STEVE ABRAMS
SAM MAGAVERN
THE CRUCIAL NEED FOR A LESS MECHANIZED LIFE
JOHN BELL
IS WESTERN CULTURE LOSING ITS MIND?
STEVE DAVIDSON
STEVEN G. KELLMAN
ART & STYLE
Jocelyn Hobbie, Sun Facing, 2022, oil painting, 18 x 18 inches. Image courtesy Fredericks & Freiser, NYLORRAINE SHEMESH
HOW HUMOUR LAID THE WORLD BARE, FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT
KATHARINA VAN CAUTEREN
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GREAT PAINTINGS OF WOMEN BY WOMEN RIGHT NOW?
CRAIG MCDANIEL
TWO ZEN INK PAINTINGS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
PAUL SCHOLLMEIER
CONVERSATIONS AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PHILOSOPHER FRANK JACKSON
TONY SOBRADO
LIFE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EVOLUTION
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A PHILOSOPHER AND A BIOLOGIST
MIKHAIL EPSTEIN AND EUGENE KOONIN
AN (ADDITIONAL) INTERVIEW WITH JEAN-LUC BEAUCHARD
A.T. STOJKOVICH
JEFFREY BURNOP
FICTION & POETRY
Ovid’s Creek #1, by Monica AngleA DAY IN THE DESERT UNLIKE ANY OTHER
FICTION
ANDREW MCKENNA
SAM MAGAVERN
LUKE SAWCZAK
PETER AUSTIN
VALENTIN RASPUTIN
STEPHEN HAVEN
THE INEXPLICABLE HANDS OF RAVENNA
ROYAL W.F. RHODES
BOOKS & REVIEWS
Simone de Beauvoir, Paris, France, 1952. (Gisele Freund/Researchers History/Getty Images)
“WHO SHALL I TAKE AS MY EXAMPLE? WHO SHALL I LEARN FROM?”
NINA BERBEROVA AND SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
IRINA VINOKUROVA
HOW THE NEWS MEDIA WARPS OUR MINDS
JOHN ZADA
FEN OSLER HAMPSON
JÉRÔME DOYON
CHRISTOPHER R. BROWNING
PAST & PRESENT
GEORGE KENNAN
A VOICE OF REASON: GEORGE KENNAN ON THE FATE OF THE SOVIET UNION AND NATO EXPANSION
GEORGE KENNAN
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