The Tiny, Grammar-Bound Island
Much of what we know is unspeakable, and language is but one expressive medium.
Unbiblical Scholarship
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on October 5, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration (Shutterstock).
Every graduate student in the humanities should be required to take a course in the English Bible.
Why Characters Write
Consider another problem of motivation in the house of fiction: why characters write.
Kundera and the Question of Jewish-Israeli Identity
by
Yiftach Ofek
Posted on September 28, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: Bougainvillea in Jerusalem by Mathilde Pée/Unsplash.
Kundera chose to take the long view, reflecting on the relationship between the Jews and Europe, and, more broadly, on the Jews and that European, literary spirit to which he saw himself heir.
A Sentimental Education
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on September 14, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: AARN GIRI/Unsplash; THR illustration.
The literature classroom is an unusually fit environment in which to pursue “the deepening and sharpening of emotional powers.”
The Weimar Mood
by
Mark Dunbar
Posted on September 12, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: Boys use German mark notes to make a kite during the hyperinflation of 1923; THR illustration/Ullstein.
Listening for those voices from the deep.
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