In his preamble to the new "Religion" issue of Lapham's Quarterly, Lewis Lapham describes the downfall of traditional religion as…
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literature
Schmitt on Shakespeare
December 15, 2009
At TELOSscope , Nicole Burgoyne interviews David Pan, translator of the first English edition of Carl Schmitt's 1956 foray into…
Was prophecy a day job for poets?
December 15, 2009
In The New Republic, Adam Kirsch reviews David Rosenberg's A Literary Bible, which makes an arresting claim about Hebrew biblical…
Excerpts from 36 Arguments for God: a work of fiction
December 1, 2009
At Edge, John Brockman introduces excerpts from Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's forthcoming 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: a work…
Secular brooding, literary brooding
June 22, 2008
What's so bad about heteronomous thinking, anyway? Stathis Gourgouris has used the term in several posts here on The Immanent…
A story to tell
October 27, 2007
Stories, at least good stories, are full of details that demand time and space in a narrative. They are worth…