Tomorrow evening, at Columbia University's Rennert Hall, Kraft Center for Jewish Life, author Gary Shteyngart will engage in a conversation…
Gary Shteyngart: Rewiring the Real, at Columbia University
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America plus nothing
But Sweet Heaven When I Die is, first and foremost, a book about loss, about death, transience, neglect, and quitting. These…
Milton and the postsecular
In The Huffington Post, Feisal Mohammed offers an excerpt from his new book, Milton and the Post-Secular Present: Ethics, Politics, Terrorism, published in…
OMG: Oprah Winfrey, pop religion, and the temple of our familiar
I have been—and perhaps in some ways will always be—one of the denizens, the followers, the 100% skeptical and yet…
What we talk about when we talk about the postsecular
The term "postsecular" is quickly becoming a keyword for scholars of religion and public life. So what is it all…
Romanticism, reflexivity, design: An interview with Colin Jager
Colin Jager’s reading of the British romantics places them at the center of debates about religion, secularism, and pluralism today.…
A. S. Byatt on literature, religion, and social media
The Guardian met up with A. S. Byatt, author of Possession, to talk about, well, a number of things. It…
Catholicism, conservatism, and antihumanist politics
Geroulanos’s central thesis is compelling but simple: French antihumanism, in its theoretical mode, was based on a radicalized “negative anthropology,”…
Religion, science, and the humanities: An interview with Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Barbara Herrnstein Smith is a distinguished literary scholar at both Brown and Duke, who, since her undergraduate days, has had…
Atheism as religion
At least since Ernst Bloch's Atheism in Christianity, the separation between "atheism" and "religion" has been questioned and interrogated by…