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What IF?

The book gives way to the download, and solitary reading transforms into virtual conversations.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, July/August, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 4
Leon Kass

Great Expectations

In the classroom and in daily life, the bioethicist believes in the best of human nature.

By Yuval Levin

humanities, May/June, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 3
Prescott Hall, leader of the Immigration Restriction League

Immigration and the Brahmins

An influx of undesirables at the end of the nineteenth century hit Boston's elite rather hard.

By Vincent J. Cannato

humanities, May/June, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 3

What Words Are Worth

In defense of the humanities.

By R. Howard Bloch

humanities, May/June, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 3

Darwin the Young Adventurer

The budding naturalist avoids life as a minister and finds himself aboard the Beagle.

By Janet Browne

humanities, May/June, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 3
The Death of James Lee Byars, 1982/1994

Outside the Frame

How Asia changed the course of American art.

By James Panero

humanities, March/April, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 2
Portrait of Mary St. John Hutchinson

British Modernism’s Many Manners

The Bloomsbury group broke ties with Victorian ideals and reimagined British art.

By Steve Moyer

humanities, March/April, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 2

The Voracious Pen of Thomas Carlyle

A young historian pours forth The French Revolution, blood and all, inspiring a generation of Victorian writers.

By Meredith Hindley

humanities, March/April, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 2

A Poet’s Inner Eye

A literary scholar looks for Elizabeth Bishop in the fishing waters of Florida.

By Carol Frost

humanities, March/April, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 2
The Great Mosque of Cordoba

Thieves of Pleasure

A vicious fraternal war rewards Alfonso VI with the artistic and poetic treasures of al-Andalus.

By Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner

humanities, March/April, 2009, Volume 30, Issue 2