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Since Mikhail Bakhtin became widely known in the 1980s, his book on Rabelais has perplexed readers for its seemingly contradictory stance to everything else he wrote.

The investigation into the origin of papyrus fragments that the owners of Hobby Lobby purchased from an Oxford scholar underscores papyrology’s long history of shady deals and ulterior motives.

In the decades before the Civil War, innovations in printmaking and photography created a “rage for pictures” that transformed American visual culture.

In writing The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann struggled to free himself from his artistic preoccupation with sickness and death.

What If Augustine’s idea of original sin was wrong? Testimony from the Inquisition reveals freethinkers using their sexual experience to dispute the reign of shame and otherwise critique Church doctrine.

A new history of the Mets tries to turn the pain of losing into the struggle of class politics.

Harriet Clark’s debut novel is a fable-like story of growing up in the fallout of a family’s radical dreams.

With Keir Starmer’s and his party’s future in doubt after local elections in May, there is a paucity of talent among his rivals.

With their blend of taste and market savvy, literary agents have been both invisible and necessary in contemporary American fiction.

Metaphors of parenting have defined our understanding of AI, but lately the parent-child relationship between creator and machine is becoming reversed.

In Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s new paintings, mourners find clarity through communion—a departure for an artist known for her masterful portraits of solitude.

The idea of home—in a city, in one’s body, in a corpus of visual art—runs through a new show of inventive work by the Lebanese artist Huguette Caland.

One of the most dehumanizing effects of AI is the short cuts it offers through the gaps and impasses intrinsic to the act of writing.

Until Greece annexed Salonica in 1912, it had long been a city where ‘all peoples’ used to pass. How did its Jews come to be eliminated and their history erased?