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Finding the Language of Interiority in Saint Augustine’s <em>Confessions</em>

Finding the Language of Interiority in Saint Augustine’s Confessions

Roosevelt Montás on Reading—and Teaching—the Story of a Journey to Conversion

By Roosevelt Montás | November 19, 2021

How Christian Leaders Made the Case for the Crusades as an Act of... Love?

How Christian Leaders Made the Case for the Crusades as an Act of... Love?

Richard Firth-Godbehere on Saint Augustine's Exception to "Thou Shalt Not Kill"

By Richard Firth-Godbehere | November 18, 2021

How the Greek Struggle for Liberty Became a Cause Célèbre for Romantic Writers Across Europe

How the Greek Struggle for Liberty Became a Cause Célèbre for Romantic Writers Across Europe

Mark Mazower on the Embrace of Philhellenism by Hugo, Pushkin, Stendhal, and More

By Mark Mazower | November 17, 2021

Omar Mouallem on the Unknown History of Islam Across the Americas

Omar Mouallem on the Unknown History of Islam Across the Americas

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 5, 2021

The Lives of Dangerous Books: On the Explosive Rise of Literacy in Tudor England

The Lives of Dangerous Books: On the Explosive Rise of Literacy in Tudor England

Amy Licence Looks at the History of the Printing Industry

By Amy Licence | November 4, 2021

Ghostly Taboos: Superstitious Rules and Gendered Restrictions

Ghostly Taboos: Superstitious Rules and Gendered Restrictions

How Researching the Forbidden Shaped The Themes of My Novel

By Aimee Parkison | October 29, 2021

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Shadow City, Invisible City: Walking Through an Ever-Changing Kabul

By Taran Khan | October 21, 2021

Daniel Sokatch on the Chronicle of Israel and Palestine

By Keen On | October 13, 2021

How an iconic Canadian rock band lured angry teens to the dark arts of Ayn Rand.

By Jonny Diamond | October 6, 2021

Janine di Giovanni on the End of Christianity in Its Historical Homeland

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In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 4, 2021

On the Push and Pull of Muslim Cultural Identity

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Omar Mouallem: “Islam has a place within me. But do I have a place within it?”

By Omar Mouallem | September 30, 2021

Commuting with Shylock: (Reluctantly) Revisiting <em>The Merchant of Venice</em> with My 10-Year-Old Son

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Dara Horn on Hearing Shakespeare's Antisemitism with Fresh Ears

By Dara Horn | September 8, 2021

To Be Pure: On Doubt, the Rules of Jewish Identity, and Questions of Familial Inheritance

To Be Pure: On Doubt, the Rules of Jewish Identity, and Questions of Familial Inheritance

Deborah Feldman Recounts Lessons Learned from Her Grandmother and Her Early Crisis of Faith

By Deborah Feldman | September 2, 2021

Ariel Sabar Debunks the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife

Ariel Sabar Debunks the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

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Theory of Everything, Theory of Nothing: On Physics and Other Profanities

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Joshua Roebke Wonders Why We Believe in the Unseen

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Divine Intervention: 6 Books About Women Leaving Strict Religious Communities and Finding Themselves

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