ESSAYS
Acushnet (Whaler) logbook by Henry M. Johnson, 1845–47.
THE EPITAPH OF HERMAN MELVILLE
KAREN ALKALAY-GUT
ED SIMON
KAFKA SERIES
Castle Garden by Paul Klee, 1931.
THE MESSIAH WHO COMES AND GOES
FRANZ KAFKA ON REDEMPTION, CONSPIRACY AND COMMUNITY
JAMES MARTEL
LAURA ANN REED
KAFKA REMAINS THE JEWISH PROPHET OF OBLIVION
ED SIMON
ART
Wine and Words (detail) by Alan Feltus, 2004.
ALAN FELTUS
CRAIG MCDANIEL
RUSSIA SERIES
RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY, STATE, AND NATION
D. WILLIAMS, M. YOUNG, AND M. LAUNER
THE RHETORICAL USE OF HISTORICAL ANALOGY
D. WILLIAMS, M. YOUNG, AND M. LAUNER
MARIA ARBATOVA AND THE EARLY POST-SOVIET WOMEN’S MOVEMENT
ELISABETH RICH
JULY/AUGUST 2024 The Tunnels Of Gaza (2024) by Antoine Janot
THE MEDIEVAL MYSTIC PATH TO IMMORTALITY
DAVID COMFORT
“VIVAS TO THOSE WHO HAVE FAIL’D”
TEACHING WALT WHITMAN
STEPHEN HAVEN
WHEN THE COST OF WAR IS MUCH MORE THAN LIVES
CHRISTOPHER THORNTON
WHERE HAVE ALL THE CORINTHIANS GONE?
STEVE DAVIDSON
ANIL SETH ON THE HARD PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
TONY SOBRADO
JOHN BELL
THE "PALE HORSE" OF OLYMPIC CEREMONY
TSONCHO TSONCHEV
THE ECSTATIC TRUTH OF ROMANTIC NEUROSCIENCE
STUART TRENHOLM
AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES WILSON
PAUL WILLETTS
DOSTOYEVSKY’S SOLUTION TO KANT’S PROBLEM OF EVIL
HAIM MARANTZ
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL WON’T GO AWAY
ED SIMON AND RANDALL SULLIVAN
C. FRED ALFORD
THE ORIGINS OF (POLITICAL) DEMORALIZATION
BRUCE CHAPMAN
AN ICON OF DEMOCRACY FOUNDED UPON GREED AND DECEIT?
PAUL B. DONOVAN
THE MODERNITY IN ROUSSEAU’S AUDIAL SELF
GARY M. KELLY
JUDGING JUDGES IN AUTHORITARIAN STATES
RAYMOND WACKS
ON HOW AN UNKNOWN PUBLISHER IN EDO JAPAN ENTICED THE WORLD
LAURA VIGO
MICHEL FOUCAULT
ALAN ALTANY
PLUTARCH
MAY / JUNE 2024
BERNARD STIEGLER
BERNARD STIEGLER: ELEMENTS OF PHARMACOLOGY
AN INTERVIEW WITH FELIX HEIDENREICH AND FLORIAN WEBER-STEIN
CULTURE AND REALITY
T.S.TSONCHEV
BEATLES, WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!
THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF CONFLICT
STEVE DAVIDSON
DEATH, DIVINITY AND DREAMS
DAVID COMFORT
MYRON S. LUBELL
RON MCFARLAND
THE VILLAGE OF THE WATERWHEELS
JOHN BELL
READING SOLZHENITSYN FOR THE FIRST TIME
HAIM MARANTZ
Philip Larkin with his Rolleiflex, 1957. Photograph courtesy of Frances Lincoln, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group
HEDGEHOGS, DEATH AND THE BEAUTY IN THE MUNDANE
HOW LARKIN CUTS SO DEEP
DANIEL SEIFERT
TO DEAL WITH INEQUALITY, IT MUST BE BETTER UNDERSTOOD
JON D. WISMAN
PHILIP NEWMAN LAWTON
MYTH & TECH
Meiro Koizumi's Prometheus Bound at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, KanazawaPROMETHEUS: A SYMPOSIUM
The widely acclaimed blockbuster film Oppenheimer opens with this caption: "Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity." The film, based on Oppenheimer's biography American Prometheus, is only the latest popular retelling of the ancient Greek myth. The essays, published in The Montreal Review, are the result of a faculty-student workshop held at Virginia Tech in October 2023 to share research and foster conversation about contemporary uses of the myth of Prometheus.
THE STUBBORN AFTERLIVES OF THE PROMETHEUS MYTH
INTRODUCTION BY BRIAN BRITT
BY LORD BYRON
WORKING ON MODERNITY. HANS BLUMENBERG READS PROMETHEUS
BY DANIEL WEIDNER
OPPENHEIMER AS HERMES, GOD OF THE INFORMATION AGE
BY JANELL WATSON
WHY THE MYTH OF PROMETHEUS HAUNTS TALK OF TECHNOLOGY?
BY LEE VINSEL
FRANKEN-MYTHBUSTERS: MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN EXPOSES THE PATRIARCHAL PROMETHEUS
BY SOPHIA SCARFE
UNBINDING MYTH WITH LITERATURE IN SHELLEY, FLAUBERT, AND DU BOIS
BY BRIAN BRITT
PROMETHEUS REDUX: ALIEN PREQUELS, CREATION MYTH, AND THE ENCHANTMENT OF TECHNOSCIENCE
BY ZHANGE NI
PROMETHEANISM, OBSOLESCENCE, AND THE POLITICS OF CONSPIRACY THEORY
BY SAMUEL BECKENHAUER
ESSAYS THE WILD GODS OF BARBARA EHRENREICH AND WILLIAM JAMES
C. FRED ALFORD
HOW TO HAVE A LONG, HAPPY LIFE
STEVE DAVIDSON
ON THE ONGOING ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
STEVE ABRAMS
SAM MAGAVERN
THE CRUCIAL NEED FOR A LESS MECHANIZED LIFE
JOHN BELL
IS WESTERN CULTURE LOSING ITS MIND?
STEVE DAVIDSON
STEVEN G. KELLMAN
BRIAN PATRICK BOLGER
ART & STYLE
Jocelyn Hobbie, Sun Facing, 2022, oil painting, 18 x 18 inches. Image courtesy Fredericks & Freiser, NYHOW HUMOUR LAID THE WORLD BARE, FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT
KATHARINA VAN CAUTEREN
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GREAT PAINTINGS OF WOMEN BY WOMEN RIGHT NOW?
CRAIG MCDANIEL
TWO ZEN INK PAINTINGS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
PAUL SCHOLLMEIER
DAVID BERRIDGE
CONVERSATIONS LIFE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EVOLUTION
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A PHILOSOPHER AND A BIOLOGIST
MIKHAIL EPSTEIN AND EUGENE KOONIN
AN (ADDITIONAL) INTERVIEW WITH JEAN-LUC BEAUCHARD
A.T. STOJKOVICH
JEFFREY BURNOP
FICTION & POETRY
Ovid’s Creek #1, by Monica AngleSAM MAGAVERN
LUKE SAWCZAK
PETER AUSTIN
VALENTIN RASPUTIN
STEPHEN HAVEN
THE INEXPLICABLE HANDS OF RAVENNA
ROYAL W.F. RHODES
BOOKS & REVIEWS
Simone de Beauvoir, Paris, France, 1952. (Gisele Freund/Researchers History/Getty Images)
“WHO SHALL I TAKE AS MY EXAMPLE? WHO SHALL I LEARN FROM?”
NINA BERBEROVA AND SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
IRINA VINOKUROVA
HOW THE NEWS MEDIA WARPS OUR MINDS
JOHN ZADA
FEN OSLER HAMPSON
JÉRÔME DOYON
CHRISTOPHER R. BROWNING
PAST & PRESENT
GEORGE KENNAN
A VOICE OF REASON: GEORGE KENNAN ON THE FATE OF THE SOVIET UNION AND NATO EXPANSION
GEORGE KENNAN
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