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| A Review of Books in History, Religion & Culture Top Menu Reviews Essays Interviews Forums Notes Books & Culture Corner About Masthead For Contributors For Publishers Support MRB Books ReceivedTwelve Most Read Pieces of 2020 December 26, 2020 A Muslim Reflection on COVID-19 The Cry of Merlin: Carl Jung and the Insanity of Reason White Enough? Race in America ... [Read More] The Jewish Evangelion: A Resistance Polemic on the Margins December 23, 2020 December 23, 2020 Shlomo Zuckier on reading from the margins Central to Christian theology is the concept of the evangelion” (εὐαγγέλιον), literally the good news, used ... [Read More] Heinrich Heine: A Life of Contradictions December 18, 2020 December 18, 2020 David Biale on George Prochnik Heinrich Heine was the first Jew to become a cultural icon in Germany. While Moses Mendelssohn achieved fame ... [Read More] Al-Ḥarīrī’s Fifty Tales: The Tongues of God and Man December 18, 2020 Bruce Fudge on al-Ḥarīrī translated by Michael Cooperson Impostures is ostensibly the translation of a twelfth-century Arabic text entitled The Maqāmas.” Nobody knows ... [Read More] Medieval Wisdom for Mental Health in COVID-19 December 18, 2020 Jenna Phillips on Boccaccio in Quarantine In the wake of the plague outbreak of the mid-fourteenth century, a Florentine physician named Tommaso del ... [Read More] The Many True Meanings of Christmas December 18, 2020 Timothy Larsen on Christmas While the season of Christmas often brings out the best in people, somehow the subject of Christmas does not. ... [Read More] Marilynne Robinson’s Everyday Saints December 18, 2020 Abram Van Engen on Marilynne Robinson In her 2004 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel Gilead, Marilynne Robinson includes an odd scene. The narrator, an old, ... [Read More] What Is Soft Matter? December 4, 2020 December 4, 2020 Philip Ball on Tom McLeish The British biologist Peter Medawar called science the art of the soluble. It’s an apt characterization, recognizing that ... [Read More] Inaugural Poet? An Open Letter to President-elect Joe Biden December 4, 2020 December 4, 2020 Dear President-elect Joe Biden, You quoted Seamus Heaney, W. B. Yeats and Langston Hughes in your speeches, so we feel certain that you’re ... [Read More] Hebrew Philological Practices from Antiquity to the Middle Ages December 4, 2020 December 4, 2020 Geoffrey Khan, Hindy Najman, and Ishay Rosen-Zvi The Forum provides a home for substantial original and creative works of scholarship with the goal ... [Read More] Posts navigation 1 2 3 4 … 103 Next "Marginalia is terrific. Its creators and writers have taught us all how to discuss and debate profound humanistic scholarship in a readable and accessible way." – Anthony T. Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University "Marginalia is terribly impressive. The intellectual range, depth, and quality of writing are remarkable" – Bernard M. Levinson, Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible, University of Minnesota Popular Posts Inaugural Poet? An Open Letter to President-elect Joe Biden The Jewish Evangelion: A Resistance Polemic on the Margins White Noise and White Silence: Evangelicals and Race What Is Soft Matter? Hebrew Philological Practices from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Current Forum The seven reviewers of Hasidism: A New History in this forum find much to praise, but also much to critique. Copyright 2018. All rights reserved. Proudly powered by WordPress . | Theme: Awaken by ThemezHut...