The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
Spare Time with Prince Harry
The conversations we have about Spare reveal the social mores that have solidified into shared beliefs about what we believe and have passed down as the proper modes of behaving and thinking.
Luella D’Amico reviews a fallen prince's memoir
Modernizing the Monarchy
Past writers have updated Arthur for new audiences without sacrificing his essential kingship. If that's possible for Arthur, it should be possible for Charles and the British monarchy.
—Gabriel Schenk on what King Charles can learn from King Arthur.
Nutritional Colonization in British India
Nutrition becomes a realm subject to technocratic achievement and colonial control. In this way, the British state enters the domestic realm of colonized peoples.
Devin Creed on Britian’s development of nutritional colonization
Misdiagnosing Shakespearean Modernism
These Shakespeareans wish to see the playwright as a progenitor of their own project of exposure, disenchantment, and social critique. Their readings contort the histories to make them accord with modern sensibilities.
Daniel Zimmerman on making a modern out of Shakespeare
Eating Elizabethan
Food can have a transportive quality that can transcend where or when you are and take you somewhere and sometime else. However, food’s histories and transcendent qualities are never only personal.
Krystal Marsh eats her way across history