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Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids
Read more: Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the BarmakidsTales of courtly intrigue, moral testing, romance and reversals of fortune from a rare Persian manuscript…
Utopia: A round-table discussion
Sir Thomas More (1477 – 1535) was the first person to write of a ‘utopia’, a word used to describe…
The Douglass family and the roots of activism and social justice
By Celeste-Marie Bernier and Andrew Taylor Frederick Douglass. Just the name alone is enough to inspire us to think of…
Commercial Agriculture and Law Reform in Nigeria
My article “Promoting Commercial Agriculture in Nigeria Through a Reform of the Legal and Institutional Frameworks” in African Journal of International…
Reading the Times: Temporality and History in Twentieth-Century Fiction
By Randall Stevenson On Bastille Day, 2000, why did 3 million people sit down to a picnic lunch along a…
7 things you should know about the destruction of graves in the Islamic world
By Ondrej Beranek and Pavel Tupek 1) Over the past years and decades, various parts of the Islamic world –…
Ezra Pound’s “The Cantos”, Pedagogy and Poetics
‘The Cantos and Pedagogy Forum’ in Volume 12 Issue 3 of Modernist Cultures consists of a research-length article by my colleague,…
6 Books for TV Lovers
By Jennifer J. Smith It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is so much great television. From limited streaming…
The Rosetta Stone
By Jesse Schotter For the hordes of selfie-snapping tourists at the British Museum, one objects attracts more attention than any other:…
James Benning: A Cinema of Our Times
In James Benning’s film Concord Woods (2014), we watch a replica of Henry David Thoreau’s famous cabin at Walden Pond.…