Pathways
Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking right now and how writers are trying to keep up. Here are some routes we found in April that opened up new vistas on what it means to be modern and how became we that way.
Finding genealogies in rocks, poetry, and a medieval abbess.
When the end of the world makes us think about "In the beginning."
Kierkegaard gives secular moderns a heart to heart to talk.
Remembering what cannot be remembered in the book of Exodus.
Seeing liberalism as a central modifier of politics, economics, and religion.
Will we be like Venice after the plague? Let’s hope so.
Rereading a classic genealogy of modernity.
Anorexia from the medievals to moderns. Same condition, different worlds.
Can we return to Hegel to understand late capitalism?
Remembering John Prine: chronicler of malaise, humor, and hope.
William Blake’s radically alternative topography, an anti-geometric mapping of the spiritual world.