June 16, 2015

Why Henry George Matters in This Second Gilded Age — Edward T. O'Donnell

The following post is by Edward T. O’Donnell, author of Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age: What value does the story of Henry George, a self-taught economist from the late nineteenth century,...

June 16, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Understanding Brain and Dementia and More New Titles

Our weekly listing of new titles now available.

June 15, 2015

James Joyce and His Publisher, Sylvia Beach — Keri Walsh

In a recent article in The Irish Times, Keri Walsh, editor of The Letters of Sylvia Beach, examines the difficult relationship between Beach and James Joyce. Beach, of course, was the publisher of Ulysses but became estranged from Joyce after...

June 12, 2015

The Personal Mystery and the Impersonal God

Read an excerpt from Eric Dietrich’s EXCELLENT BEAUTY: THE NATURALNESS OF RELIGION AND THE UNNATURALNESS OF THE WORLD.

June 11, 2015

The Beauty of Seeing More Than We Can Understand

Read an excerpt from Eric Dietrich’s EXCELLENT BEAUTY: THE NATURALNESS OF RELIGION AND THE UNNATURALNESS OF THE WORLD.

June 10, 2015

On the Mystery of Consciousness

Read an excerpt from Eric Dietrich’s EXCELLENT BEAUTY: THE NATURALNESS OF RELIGION AND THE UNNATURALNESS OF THE WORLD.

June 10, 2015

Everyone Loves a Good — Temporary — Mystery, Pt. 2

Eric Dietrich discusses the continuing existence of “excellent beauties” (currently unsolved and possibly unsolvable mysteries) in a guest post about his new book, EXCELLENT BEAUTY.

June 9, 2015

Everyone Loves a Good — Temporary — Mystery, Pt. 1

Eric Dietrich delves into our innate attraction to mystery, our nature as metaphysical realists, and the war between science and religion in a guest post about his new book, EXCELLENT BEAUTY.

June 9, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Latino Identity, The Problem with God, and Indian Cinema

Our weekly listing of new titles now available.

June 8, 2015

Beyond Atheism: The Religion Illusion

Read an excerpt from Eric Dietrich’s EXCELLENT BEAUTY: THE NATURALNESS OF RELIGION AND THE UNNATURALNESS OF THE WORLD.

June 5, 2015

Matthew Smith on History and Understanding Food Allergy

Read the conclusion to “Another Person’s Poison: A .History of Food Allergy,” by Matthew Smith

June 4, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner — The Tale of Genji

For this week’s fiction corner we look at what is considered by many to be the world’s first novel. The following is an interview with Michael Emmerich, author of The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature now available...