Translators Bruce Rusk and Christopher Rea explore how women perpetrated, subverted, and sometimes fell victim to the elaborate cons that flourished in Zhang’s criminal underworld.| Columbia University Press Blog - Publishing a universe of knowledge for reade...
Liz Evans Weber reflects on her translation journey, evolving from rigid academic brackets to confident literary translator. The post Breaking the Hinge How I Learned to Own My Role in Translation Liz Evans Weber first appeared on Columbia University Press Blog.| Columbia University Press Blog
Translator Darryl Sterk reflects on the linguistic and cultural challenges of translating Syaman Rapongan's Eyes of the Ocean into English. The post Darryl Sterk on Translating Syaman Rapongan’s Eyes of the Ocean first appeared on Columbia University Press Blog.| Columbia University Press Blog
Translator Johnny Lorenz explores Brazilian novel The Front—where language becomes weapon & resistance through an unnamed narrator. The post Johnny Lorenz on Translating Edimilson de Almeida Pereira’s The Front first appeared on Columbia University Press Blog.| Columbia University Press Blog
Translator Christopher Peacock discusses this work's place within the broader context of modern Tibetan literature and Tsering Döndrup’s research methodology. The post Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s The Red Wind Howls first appeared on Columbia University Press Blog.| Columbia University Press Blog
Explore five adaptations of Brontë novels that amplify violence, from Wuthering Heights to Jane Eyre, reshaping the Brontës’ enduring cultural impact. The post Violence in Brontë Afterlives appeared first on Edinburgh University Press Blog.| Edinburgh University Press Blog
There is a new book published by Oxford University Press that is a travesty of Christian apologetics undeservedly snaking the respectability of, well, Oxford University: T.C. Schmidt’s Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ. The rhetorical objective of this book is to convince people that the Testimonium Flavianum, a fawning paragraph about […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
In a gateway course at St. Norbert College, community-building enhances students' vocational exploration. Through personal conferences, peer mentorship, and intentional interactions, this gateway course fosters trust and support. This class helps students discover their voices and lays a foundation for meaningful relationships and learning, emphasizing that vocation flourishes within community contexts.| vocation matters
Amir Moosavi in conversation with Anne-Marie McManus. In his book “Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War”, Moosavi explores the massive literary output of the Iran-Iraq War, choosing a comparative approach: In contrasting Iranian and Iraqi writers, it shows the common experiences of war and writing under authoritarian regimes as well as the writers' various entanglements with this war that overlapped and diverged over time.| TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
There is a classicist named Ammon Hillman (a.k.a. David Hillman) who wrote a decent dissertation on ancient pharmacology and then went on to make absurd claims about the Gospels and early Christianity that verge into pedophilia and an obsession with genitals. And yes, your intuition is working here: all his weird theories about this are […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
Biblical historian Nina Livesey has produced one of several recent mainstream studies questioning the authenticity of all the letters of Paul: The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context: Reassessing Apostolic Authorship (Cambridge University Press, 2024). The others are by David Trobisch (for Fortress) and Markus Vinzent (also for Cambridge University Press), neither of […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
Creative writing pedagogy offers valuable insights for vocational teaching across disciplines. By emphasizing storytelling, community feedback, and personal narrative, educators can guide students in reflecting on their vocational journeys. Creative writing pedagogies foster specificity, helping students articulate their experiences while navigating challenges like self-doubt and imposter syndrome.| vocation matters
Educating the Body presents a history of physical education in Canada, shedding light on its major advocates, innovators, and institutions.| University of Toronto Press
Educating the Body presents a history of physical education in Canada, shedding light on its major advocates, innovators, and institutions.| University of Toronto Press
C. Ceyhun Arslan introduces his recently published book "The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures" which challenges assumptions about the modernization of Arabic and Turkish literatures, examining their evolution into national literatures comparable to Western ones. The book explores how Ottoman authors navigated multilingual influences, shaping literary traditions and national identities in the Middle East and North Africa. It highlights how late Ottoman and p...| TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
The mainstream consensus is that only seven letters of the thirteen attributed to Paul in the New Testament are authentic: 1 and 2 Corinthians, 1 Thessalonians, Romans, Philippians, Galatians…and Philemon; while the rest are either forgeries (Ephesians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, and 2 Thessalonians) or misattributions (Hebrews is often listed as a fourteenth […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
While preparing next year’s book and reading and thinking about the one I just reviewed (Margaret Williams on Early Classical Authors on Jesus), I have evolved in my thinking about the rhetorical sense behind the “persecution” section in the Epistle of 1 Clement, and realized I should spell this out more coherently in an article, […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
