Framing the World: The Indispensable Genre
Scheherazade’s story is about stories themselves.
Driving While Female
Posted on July 31, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: The car as the ultimate fashion accessory.
Is the car our most gendered technology?
Our Very Own Lake Como Moment
Posted on July 25, 2024
in THR Web Features
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
in THR Web Features
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
in THR Web Features
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.
The New Verbal Economy
Posted on July 2, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Shutterstock.
Only through regular injections of human writing can the models improve and the machines stay up to date.
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