Can't poetry just be beautiful and sufficient in itself, a refuge?

Anthony Shoplik interviews Philip Metres

How do we adopt tradition without being duped by misinterpretation?

An interview with Anne Carpenter

How would you rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral? Are we justified in putting humans at the center of history?

An interview with Anne Carpenter

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.

It is a chief responsibility of the humanities to remember and interpret the past so that we can understand the present.

Ryan McDermott on proposed faculty cuts at ACU [update]

It is a chief responsibility of the humanities to remember and interpret the past so that we can understand the present.

Ryan McDermott on proposed faculty cuts at ACU

For some, Ireland is the archetype of Christianity’s decline in the wake of modern secularization. But is there a resurgence of theological and philosophical fervor in this traditionally Catholic country?

An interview with Gaven Kerr

In a time when technology has made it possible to change our very bodies in ways that would have been unimaginable to previous generations, are we less human than before?

An interview with Michael Hanby

In making computers to solve ethical dilemmas and robots to enter relationships, are we creating something in our own image? Is it possible to separate intelligence or emotion from the body?

An interview with Noreen Herzfeld

What I'm interested in are those discourses [...] which seem to be interested in negotiating with Christianity, but actually want to overcome it on narrative grounds.

A podcast interview with Cyril O’Regan

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 February on our modern life.

You're not taken to some other realm. You're firmly on the ground trying to perceive the eternal and transcendent in the immanent and present. That for me is an authentic kind of presence.

Arthur Aghajanian and Taylor Worley in conversation

Here are some of our favorite books from 2022. Perhaps some of these books will end up source texts for future genealogists. So, if you are making reading resolutions for 2023, we have you covered!

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 December on our modern life.

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.

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.

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 August on our modern life.

Hai Zi was a poet dedicated to an attempt to create a mythology of modernity; a poet as obsessed with the origins of modernity as he was with the challenge of reforging it.

Jake Grefenstette and poetic genealogies of Chinese modernity

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 June on our modern life.