Pathways

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in November on our modern life.

Literary criticism cannot change anything except for how we read. London Review of Books

Are kitty memes the hermeneutic key to understanding contemporary life? The New Atlantis

Xenoglossy speaks to our relationship with the past: through reincarnation, mendacity, or memory. Samuel Taylor Bloggeridge

What role does the brick play in modern Bogotá? The New York Times Style Magazine

Ukrainian modernist masters ship in secret to Madrid. e-flux

It turns out that we are still fighting about the same problems as Hume and Smith in the 18th Century. The Chronicle of Higher Education

Are we still on the road to serfdom? The Prospect

We need to start thinking about medieval history differently. Church Life Journal