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[Editor’s Note: This essay is part of our series on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s stories of science, progress, and human nature.] Love Conquers All Jenna Silber Storey, Benjamin Storey The New Atlantis Spring, 2015 Nathaniel Hawthorne spent the first twelve years of his adult life in his mother’s attic, huddled over his writing. Not long after emerging, he encountered Sophia Pe..

ByzantiumTheir ears were uncircumcisedBy Rafo; Lrp;;-Zaidi Download Pdf Harper's Magazine/December 12, 2015 Epiphanius began to interrogate the Blessed One and said: “Tell me, please, how and when the end of this world shall occur? What are the beginnings of the throes? And how will men know that the end is close, at the doors? By what signs will the end be indicated? And whi..

이 사람의 삶 장쩌민 주석도 감탄한 ‘현대판 우공(愚公)’중국 교과서에 실린 제주 ‘생각하는 정원’ 성범영 원장 신동아 2015년 12월 호 제주의 ‘생각하는 정원’은 장쩌민, 후진타오, 시진핑 등 전·현직 국가주석을 비롯해 많은 중국인이 찾는 명소다. 이곳 성범영 원장은 중국의 중..

The Myth of the Pure Artist By Maggie Doherty November 15, 2015 The Chronicle of Higher Education Pat Kinsella for The Chronicle Review The ending of Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, Invisible Man, a bildungsroman set largely in 1930s Harlem, is famously strange. The anonymous narrator — a young, black intellectual — escapes a violent street protest via an open manhole..

The Quality of MercyNancy Gibbs @nancygibbs This appears in the November 23, 2015 issue of TIME. Peter Hapak for TIME MoreHow Do You Forgive a Murder?Why the Emanuel Gunman May Not Get the Death PenaltyA Grieving Congregation Struggles with the Spotlight Some actions simply can’t be explained, only explored, their meaning shifting with the passage of time. First came the crim..

The Citizens of NowhereEmily Anne Epstein Atlantic Monthly Nov 8, 201515 Photos Greg Contantine has spent a decade photographing people with no documentation, and no rights. Working with various refugee groups and non-governmental organizations, Constantine has visited stateless communities in 18 countries—including Sri Lanka, Kenya, Kuwait, Crimea, Italy, and the Domini..

The Hedgehog Review: Vol. 17 No. 2 (Summer 2015)Body and SoulMark Edmundson Does the body still exist if we do not have souls? It may sound like a flippant question—or at least a sophistic one. I intend it as neither: Does the body still exist if we do not have souls? That we do not have souls is a palpable fact to many—I would even say most—members of the edu..

The Hedgehog Review: Vol. 17 No. 2 (Summer 2015)A Disease Just Like Any OtherJoseph E. Davis The suicide last summer of the actor and comedian Robin Williams sparked the latest round in our ongoing public discussion of mental illness. Predictably, once speculation about details of his life subsided, the concern shifted to “stigma” (prejudice and discrimination) and how ment..

Death of cancer by Vincent DeVita and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn AEON / 23 October 2015 Radiation treatment for lung cancer. Photo by Christopher Anderson/Magnum A critical mass of medical knowledge could soon end the death threat of cancer, but politics stands in the way Vincent DeVita is a former director of the National Cancer Institute and the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor..

Bad thinkers Aeon By Quassim Cassam 13 March 2015 Quassim Cassam is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick in Coventry. His latest books are Berkeley’s Puzzle: What Does Experience Teach Us? (2014) and Self-Knowledge for Meet Oliver. Like many of his friends, Oliver thinks he is an expert on 9/11. He spends much of his spare time looking at conspiracist website..