Catullus Reading his Poems at Lesbia's House (detail), an 1870 painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Bridgeman The heart of the reviewer can sink upon receiving a doorstop titled something like The ...
A superficial knowledge of the Greek language – alpha particles, beta decay, gamma rays and so on all the way to Omega Centauri – is essential for any scientist. But Ricardo Mansilla, a mathematician ...
"Animals in the American Classics" and "Animals in Classic American Poetry," Edited by John Gruesser
This week on The Bookmark, John Gruesser, editor of "Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction" and "Animals in Classic American Poetry: How Natural History Inspired ...
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by I.C. Rapoport/Getty Images Here is a love poem, clear-eyed yet passionate, personal and impersonal in ways I admire: “Cascando” by Samuel Beckett. The poem’s ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
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