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Richard Rosengarten
Richard Rosengarten is dean of students and senior lecturer in religion and literature at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Maggie Nelson finds freedom in the emphatic middle
Her new essay collection examines how Americans thread the needle between care and constraint.
July 6, 2022
Hayy ibn Yaqzan, by Ibn Tufayl
The 12th-century Muslim mystic Ibn Tufayl relates the story of a spontaneously generated child raised by a gazelle on a desert island, and the process by which he attains union with God through the...
October 1, 2015
The Practice of Reading, by Denis Donoghue
Denis Donoghue wants us to get back to reading literature as literature....
September 21, 1999
Encountering the texts
By Herman L. Sinaiko, Reclaiming the Canon: Essays on Philosophy, Poetry, and History. (Yale University Press, 338 pp.)...
October 13, 1998
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