Eros Further Unbound: An Exchange
Debating the stakes of the “New Puritanism”
Framing the World: The Indispensable Genre
by
Ed Simon
Posted on August 14, 2024
Image: Edmund Dulac’s 1911 illustration of Scheherazade; Shutterstock.
Scheherazade’s story is about stories themselves.
Driving While Female
Is the car our most gendered technology?
Our Very Own Lake Como Moment
Posted on July 25, 2024
Image: Lake Como by Ellena McGuinness via Unsplash.
As he roamed the edges of Lake Como, Romano Guardini foresaw the birth of a new world.
Reading as Moral Formation
by
Derek King
Posted on July 18, 2024
Image: Credit: THR illustration; Iris Murdoch, 1957, by Ida Kar; C.S. Lewis, 1951, Alamy; background—Patrick Tomasso via Unsplash.
Attentional humility opens us to sympathetic reading—a willingness to receive from the text on the author’s own terms.
The Unlikely Verse of H.P. Lovecraft
by
Ed Simon
Posted on July 10, 2024
Image: Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos by Jacob Walker, © 2013 jacobwalkerart.com; courtesy of the artist.
H.P. Lovecraft’s verse advances a startlingly modern metaphysic.