As a musician and poet, Éamon Carr came to prominence in the Irish counterculture in the late 1960s, and as drummer for Horslips, he memor...

After Wolf Hall (12-23-10 review on Amazon and blog ) immersed us into Thomas Cromwell's mind as he did the bidding of Henry VIII to ...

Dhúisigh muid suas go déanach le "scaird mhoill." Thosaigh muid Dé Déardaoin ag dul go Cearnach Trafalgar. Ith Léna lón lena ...

This biblical story's always troubled me, so Mark Larrimore's energetic and pithy survey of its "multiplicity of voices"...

What this MIT physicist and humanist (he holds a joint professorship, and this leads as he notes crossing his campus to some mental adjust...

Last May, the new DSM-V, the standard for medical and psychological professions in classifying sexual disorders, admitted that there now e...

For her dissertation, cultural anthropologist Katherine Frank worked as a stripper. Now, as a participant-observer into the realm of s...

We lack an ability to cope with death. As ten thousand baby boomers will daily turn sixty-five for the next nineteen years, Lawrence R...

This veteran expert on Dante guides us through thematic chapters rather than a chronological commentary through the Commedia or a critical...