The editors of Town Planning Review (TPR) have selected the following paper as a Featured Viewpoint in TPR 92.3: 'Strategies in Brazilian informal settlements: fighting COVID-19 towards urban resilience' by Lara Furtado. When asked to describe the paper and highlight its importance, the author stated the following: After over one year of the beginning of … Continue reading
Spotlight on Poetry: free to read articles from across our journals
As part of our Spotlight on Poetry, enjoy free access to a selection of articles from across our journals, available throughout May 2021.
Reframing Rousseau
Barbara Abrams, Mira Morgenstern, and Karen Sullivan are the authors of Reframing Rousseau’s Lévite d'Ephraïm: The Hebrew Bible, hospitality, and modern identity, the May volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. An exciting new perspective on the influences of Biblical writings on Rousseau’s works, the study considers themes in Le Lévite d’Ephraïm, … Continue reading
Philip Rahv’s Jewish Story Matters Today
The Secular Rabbi: Philip Rahv and Partisan Review focuses on the ambivalent Jewish identity of Philip Rahv, co-founder of Partisan Review. In this blog post, author Doris Kadish considers how Rahv's life and work remain relevant to 21st-century Jews and immigrant voices. Philip Rahv, the storied editor of Partisan Review, belonged to “the world of … Continue reading
Locked down with the popes: the Codex epistolaris Carolinus
My constant companions during the isolation necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 were a group of long-dead popes. Gregory III, Zacharias, Stephen II and his brother Paul I, their luckless successor Pope Constantine II,[1] Constantine’s ruthless deposer Stephen III, and the ostensibly more urbane Hadrian I[2] ruled the see of Rome in the second … Continue reading
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