Human Conditions: ‘The Intimate Enemy’ by Ash...

Like Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare made good use of his time off when the theatres were shut for plague in 1593. 'Venus and Adonis' appeared in quarto that year and become by far the most popular work Shakespeare published in his lifetime, running to ten editions befor ...  Afficher plus

In The Light Eaters (2024), Zoë Schlanger reports from the frontiers of botany, where researchers are discovering forms of sensing, signalling and responding that challenge our ideas of plants as passive life forms. Meehan Crist and Peter Godfrey-Smith explore Schlanger’s account ...  Afficher plus

Si la littérature s’avère parfois exotisante ou violente lorsqu’elle aborde les vies colonisées, elle permet aussi de rendre un juste hommage à des vies longtemps jugées indignes d’intérêt. Telle est la démarche d’Abdellah Taïa dans l’ouvrage <a href="https:// ...

In this Conversation, we talked to Hoda Elsadda about her research on Arab literary history from a gender perspective where she attempts to answer the question: if gender is a category of analysis, how would we rewrite the history of the Arab literary tradition?

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In the second of three introductions to our full Close Readings programme for 2024, Adam Shatz presents his series, Human Conditions, in which he’ll be talking separately to three guests – Judith Butler, Pankaj Mishra and Brent Hayes Edwards – about some of the most revolutionary ...  Afficher plus

Jill Jarvis talked about the aesthetics and politics of North Africa and her book “Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony.” 

Jill Jarvis specializes in the aesthetics and politics of North Africa. Her forthcoming book, Decolonizing Memory : Algeria an ...