As part of our discussion of the “Lives of Great Religious Books” series out this March from Princeton University Press,…
“I would love to read the biography of a book . . .”
Lives of Great Religious Books
Moments from the lives of great religious books
“The Lives of Great Religious Books,” a promising new series from Princeton University Press, debuted this month with three titles—Martin…
The evolution of a text
In his 1915 essay, “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death,” Sigmund Freud wrote, “It is indeed impossible to…
The birth of a book
An old photograph provides a glimpse into a dismal cell at a Nazi prison called Tegel. Wan light falls in…
The “great sinner” myth
Confessions re-emerged into floodlit attention in the Romantic era of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, when it was…