July 2021

The Doom of the Great City imagines the entire population of London choked to death under a soot-filled fog. The story is told by the event’s lone survivor sixty years later...

Colonizationism was not merely a part of the debate over wartime emancipation but rather reflected the United States’ race-based imperial ambitions...

You cannot understand this building’s purpose, but you  know that you have just encountered a poetic even mythic work of architecture...

Don’t we go to literature to find the logic that might displace the absurdity of our lives?

The Democratic Party has been pulled far enough left that even lots of non-crazy people find us just plain scary...

When it comes to matters of the courtroom, some cases are surely easier to empathise with than others. A sketch artist may have a personal connection to the plight of the accused or accuser...

The first person to be photographed was a man having his boots cleaned. There were others in the same street, but they moved and became invisible...

This essay considers some reasons for lyric’s return in black British poetics by first taking a broad look at the field, and then by attending to the work of several poets writing since the 1990s but publishing most visibly since the millennium...

I miss many aspects of my chaplaincy training: the deep listening that can blossom in the most unexpected of circumstances, the twinning of action and reflection...

Was Walter Benjamin correct in suggesting a relationship between art and fascism?

It is commonly said, even by the English themselves, that English cooking is the worst in the world. Now that is simply not true...

Recent excavations reveal much about the conduct of siege warfare during the Anarchy and its intersection with larger societal trends...

This new world of ours, structured by the internet, is unrelentingly violent, as it is inimical to human freedom and human thriving...

As power plants find more effective and eco-friendly ways to produce energy, they often increase their output in response to their elevated efficiency. In doing so, they also produce more CO2 than they would otherwise...