Closure
Wilfred M. McClay
Closure offers itself to us in the shape of a demi-nirvana.
Retranslating the Blues
W. Ralph Eubanks
What is lost in translation can be recovered if one begins to understand the nuances and significance of what has been placed on the margins.
Untranslated
Olga Litvak
What operates in the Jewish suspicion of confession is a kind of epistemological modesty, an unwillingness to examine other minds too closely.
Lessons of Babel
Jay Tolson
Even more than its centrality to communication and language, translation draws us closer to one of the paradoxes of the human person as both a member of a species and an irreducibly distinct individual.
Current Issue
Of Continuing Interest
A selection of articles from the archives
Principled to a Fault
Becca Rothfeld
On the face of it, Simone Weil is a remarkably poor candidate for domestication.
I Sing the Electric Body
Brian Patrick Eha
To begin a sentence is to launch into the void and syntax plays a large role in how you will land.
Taking Theology Public
Michael J. Lacey
How does one deal with the “trees and forests” complexity of a career like David Tracy’s?