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 September on our modern life.

Making Homer modern? The New Yorker

For sale: Christopher Columbus’s original claim to “discovery.” The Guardian

Jake Heggie: an operatic approach to capital punishment. Commonweal

“The Loss of Wonder”: on “the implausibility of God in contemporary society.“ First Things

Art at the “Tensions of Modernity.” Art Institute of Chicago

Exploring Afro-Mexican history in art. NPR

“Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I.” The New Yorker

Dickinson, Plath, and time travel. The Atlantic