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 October on our modern life.

Photography and tradition in modern Nepal The Kathmandu Post

A claim to experience the “changing tradition” of Swiss yodeling National Geographic

“Synod on Synodality” in the Catholic Church in Africa Church Life Journal

Shaun Blanchard on Synodality Commonweal

Celebrating the First Folio First Things

“Corporate publishing has transformed what it means to be an author” The New Yorker

100 Holocast-era violins restored by father and son Carnegie Mellon University

“[Hannah] Arendt casts the shape of love’s ultimate object according to Augustine” The Marginalian

UK universities’ ongoing attempts to grapple with pasts in the slave trade The Spectator

The birth of gynecology: a story that’s at once a literal genealogy and a genealogy of modernity The Atlantic