Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a renowned and successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. In The Orator’s Education (Institutio Oratoria), a... Læs mere
Mondegreen tells the story of a refugee from Ukraine’s Donbas region who has escaped to Kyiv at the onset of the Ukrainian-Russian war. Written in beautiful,... Læs mere
Babyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in English translation, the poems create a... Læs mere
From 2010 to 2014, the Classics Department at the University of Heidelberg set out to trace over two millennia of research on... Læs mere
Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons. Joshua Bennett explores the place of animality in works by... Læs mere
In 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops retaliated. Tom Zoellner tells the inspiring story of the uprising that galvanized antislavery forces in Britain and led directly to abolition two years later.
The US Constitution says nothing about a presidential cabinet, yet this institution has grown powerful. Lindsay M. Chervinsky... Læs mere
The threat of cyberwar can feel very Hollywood: nuclear codes hacked, power plants melting down, cities burning. In reality,... Læs mere
The poems in The Voices of Babyn Yar convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through unbearable events leading to the massacre at Kyiv’s Babyn Yar. Conceived as a... Læs mere