by KARL STEEL Hi everyone! I’m trying to trick you into reading this whole thing with this jaunty opening. My interest in Sky Burial and…
Over at the Smithsonian, Natasha Geiling writes about Santa, who has as many hometowns as Christ has foreskins. Santa lives at the North Pole, or, rather, the “North…
by KARL STEEL A few nights ago, I made the mistake of watching The Horde, a 2012 film produced by the Orthodox Encyclopedia, (!), that…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LwE38qbylM?fs=1 You’ll remember how “Bisclavret” begins: Quant de lais faire m’entremet ne voil ubliër Bisclavret. Bisclavret a nun en Bretan, Garwalf l’apelant li Norman. Jadis le…
Tonight, my grad class did 1/2 of Mandeville and 1/2 of Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter. Mandeville–drawing on John of Planto Carpini and Simon of Saint…
How does the cliché go? “Being a blogger means never having to say you’re sorry”? Brooklyn College begins its semester today (and before your jealous…
(Image from here: Strange but Trewe) I stumbled across an interpretation Tuesday in the course of teaching the Prioress’s Tale. As I said it, it…
Blurton’s second chapter considers Beowulf within the alimentary logic and wonders of the whole of its manuscript, Cotton Vitellius A. XV, whose contents, as our…
A entry in a book event, unlike a book review, makes no claim to completeness, finality, or even to treating the book under question directly.…
I decided to give up on gumming my dissertation to death for a moment to offer our readers this, an inchoate version of my upcoming…
