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In works of Western literature ranging from Homer's Odyssey to Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The giving and taking of hospitality are sometimes pleasurable, but more often perilous. Heffernan traces this leitmotiv through the history of our greatest writings, including Christ's Last Supper, Macbeth's murder of his royal guest, and Camus'...

For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Like many of their contemporaries, both poets envisioned their encounters with their beloved in heaven-Dante with Beatrice, Petrarch with Laura. But as Ramie Targoff reveals in this elegant study, English love poetry of the Renaissance brought a startling reversal of this tradition:...

A wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of eighteenth-century Britain, Cruelty and Laughter uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility that forces us to recognize just how slowly ordinary human sufferings became worthy of sympathy. Delving into an enormous archive of comic...

The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. From Revolutionary times to about 1830, numerous American politicians, commentators, ministers, and laymen depicted their young nation as a new,...

Little is known about the early childhood of Jesus Christ. But in the decades after his death, stories began circulating about his origins. One collection of such tales was the so-called Infancy Gospel of Thomas, known in antiquity as the Paidika, or "Childhood Deeds" of Jesus. In it, Jesus not only performs miracles while at play (such as turning...

Proszę państwa 4 czerwca 1989 roku skończył się w Polsce komunizm - powiedziała w "Dzienniku Telewizyjnym" Joanna Szczepkowska. Od tej chwili mija już (albo dopiero) 15 lat. Wiele się przez ten czas wydarzyło, wiele też usłyszeliśmy słów i haseł - zarówno z ust polityków, jak i działaczy samorządowych, dziennikarzy, ludzi nauki i sztuki. Niektóre z...