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Speculum Celebrates 100 years of the Medieval Academy of America

February 12, 2025

In 1925, the Medieval Academy of America (MAA) was founded as a learned society dedicated to pursuing scholarly research on the Middle Ages in North America. A century later, the MAA occupies a central position in the landscape of medieval studies, and Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, the flagship journal of the

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A Reading List for When You’re Longing for the Tropics

February 6, 2025

One grey day after another. February may be the shortest month but the cold and damp make it drag on forever. We’re all looking to escape the dreary weather, aren’t we? Here is a list of books that will help you dream of warmth, the sun, and maybe a tropical

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Five Questions with Philip Seaton and Lawrence W. Zettler, authors of “Saving Orchids”

January 28, 2025

Until recently, a myriad of lifeforms enriched our lives. In some places, listening to a nighttime chorus of frogs in the neighborhood marsh was an archetypal touchstone of childhood. Children would search for tadpoles just steps away from native Lady’s Tresses orchids. Yet year by year, the chorus became quieter

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Read an excerpt from “On Close Reading” by John Guillory

January 23, 2025

What exactly is “close reading,” and where did the term come from? In On Close Reading, John Guillory takes up two puzzles. First, why did the New Critics—who supposedly made close reading central to literary study—so seldom use the term? And second, why have scholars not been better able to

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Five Questions with Alexander Wood, author of “Building the Metropolis”

January 9, 2025

Between the 1880s and the 1930s, New York City experienced explosive growth as nearly a million buildings, dozens of bridges and tunnels, hundreds of miles of subway lines, and thousands of miles of streets were erected to meet the needs of an ever-swelling population. In his book Building the Metropolis, Alexander Wood

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Read an Interview with Poet and Translator Aaron Coleman

December 21, 2024

To celebrate new Phoenix Poets books, we’re introducing Phoenix editors, poets, and translators through a series of short interviews. Here, we spoke with poet and translator Aaron Coleman, whose new translated bilingual edition of Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén’s The Great Zoo has recently published. In this interview, he discusses his

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Read an Excerpt from “Yet Another Costume Party Debacle” by Ingrid A. Nelson

December 19, 2024

Drawing on interviews and archival research, Yet Another Costume Party Debacle shows how colleges both contest and reproduce racialized systems of power. Sociologist Ingrid A. Nelson juxtaposes how students and administrators discuss race with how they behave in the aftermath of racially charged campus controversies. Nelson shows how the underlying campus structures

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Read an Excerpt from “The Politics of Utopia” by Arnaud Orain

December 17, 2024

Published this summer, The Politics of Utopia is a fascinating retelling of the first banking and financial collapse in eighteenth-century France. This week, we’re sharing a short excerpt from the book’s introduction. Since the end of the seventeenth century, utopians, theologians, travelers, economists, and what Daniel Defoe called projectors—individuals who

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Read an Excerpt from “Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions” by Nobel Prize–Winner Alain Aspect

December 3, 2024

At the start of the twentieth century, the first quantum revolution upset our vision of the world. New physics offered surprising realities, such as wave-particle duality, and led to major inventions: the transistor, the laser, and today’s computers. Less known is the second quantum revolution, arguably initiated in 1935 during

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