a beautiful, ruminative essay on teaching the humanities in the ruins of the university

lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/apri…

Read the whole review.

nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

the edge of the world (kitty hawk)

this review is so funny I choked on my coffee on the subway this morning

“In early modernity…saints & their miracles were physical evidence of the workings of supernatural grace in the natural world. They flew, they hovered, they teleported;…their bodies glowed with light; they could smell the sins of others.” —Erin Maglaque go.nybooks.com/3x2aAQ9

“Is God a magnet? I wondered, and then had to put down the book and get some air.” —Erin Maglaque go.nybooks.com/3IKp61B

carolyn forché --

'You taught me to live like this.'

i wrote about flying for The New York Review of Books 🪽🪽

i wrote about flying for The New York Review of Books 🪽🪽

this is so gorgeous

newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

My shadow rode around her, / the small bells of my intuition.

Erin Maglaque on miracles and credulity go.nybooks.com/49RQdDP

This is such a wonderful essay, on the limits of the genre of history –– on trying to find a way to write about the past 'not in the familiar academic registers of the good and the true, but rather in...the beautiful.'

academic.oup.com/jsh/article/57…

I reviewed a 'history of the impossible' for The New York Review of Books. Spoiler: I hated it. But it was an occasion to think about my favorite things – desire, excess, belief; how we reckon with the strangeness of the premodern past.

nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Our 4/4 issue is now online, with Erin Maglaque on miracles, Christian Caryl on Navalny’s legacy, miranda seymour on Lord Byron’s reputation, Jason DeParle on seeing homeless people, Daphne Merkin on Barbra, Phillip Lopate on Robert Louis Stevenson, and more. go.nybooks.com/4aeiYu7

A long-forgotten medical thesis from 1938 uncovers the physical and psychic distress of London factory girls.

Sally Alexander explores Dr Garland's remarkable thesis and the lives which it documents.

historyworkshop.org.uk/labour/dr-thom…

I was always going to love Robyn Schiff’s INFORMATION DESK (as a former The Metropolitan Museum of Art intern) but I really, really, really love it

[Chris Wickham, 'How Did the Feudal Economy Work?']

On character. From Jorie Graham’s essay “At the Border” — defeat without irony, fear of joy, and joy: