[Vienna, July 21, 2025] –The book Seshat History of Moralizing Religion explores how societies across the world have answered some of the oldest human questions: What do the gods want from us? Will we ...

One of the most difficult things about studying religion as an academic is convincing people that things in the past were different from what they are now. To put it another way, what most people ...

In “Greek Lessons,” Han Kang’s latest novel to be translated into English, a young Korean mother is suddenly unable to speak. By Idra Novey When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

Twenty years ago, Pope Pius X commissioned a scholar to head a research into the text of the Vulgate, the 1500-year-old standard Latin version of the Bible. The scholar whom he chose for this task was ...

What does it mean to speak without the hope of a response? To address someone who cannot or will not hear you, who cannot or will not reply? The first three full-length novels by the South Korean ...

Few literary books this year are as highly anticipated as Greek Lessons, the latest novel by Han Kang to be translated into English. After Kang's Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian and the ...

The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe. By Mark Mazower. Penguin Press; 608 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £30 WHEN A COALITION of footloose merchants, sea captains, hard-pressed peasants ...