So, there's my attempt at making a case for why even scientists need to study the arts, literature, history, philosophy, and whatever else we're lumping together as "the humanities" this week.

This article appears in the March 6/13, 2023 issue. Illustration by Tim Robinson. The scene: a graduate seminar in literature sometime in the eerily becalmed days of the mid-1990s, when for an ...

John Guillory’s Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study, out in January from the University of Chicago Press, promises to be a landmark in the study of higher ...

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Program Description The master of arts in literature brings together literary scholars, theorists, creative writers, and literary translators who share a commitment to transnational and ...

Book Specifications Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide David G. Roskies, Naomi Diamant 2013 360 pp. $35.00 Paperback, 978-1-61168-358-5 $85.00 Hardcover, 978-1-61168-357-8 $34.99 Ebook, ...

Books & the Arts May 8, 2013 Adventures in Neurohumanities Applying neuroscience to the study of literature is fashionable. But is it the best way to read a novel?

Study literature and other cultural works, as well as linguistics, and creative writing. The immersion is flexible in order to accommodate student interest in areas such as specific literary ...