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Brancusi 27 March-1 July Centre Pompidou, Paris Catalogue by Ariane Coulondre ISBN 9782844269768 (hardback), 45 [pounds sterling] (Centre Pompidou) Midway through the monumental Brancusi retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, in [...]

A string of recent exhibitions have treated the Normans as worldly-wise and quick to assimilate wherever they landed. It's an appealing view, but the reality was a good deal grimmer [...]

This essay describes my pedagogical shift while teaching online during the Covid 19 pandemic. I switched to classes structured by slow, careful translation of medieval texts, with positive effects on student attention and participation.

WOMEN AND MEDIEVAL LITERARY CULTURE From the early Middle Ages to the fifteenth century CORINNE SAUNDERS AND DIANE WATT, EDITORS 500pp. Cambridge University Press. 120 [pounds sterling] (US $160). At [...]

Every life has its unexpected turns--mine have brought me to a pebbly campground in Provence, facing an enthusiastic programme of group athletic activities. Today I escaped the August heat into [...]

AS A LIFELONG PERFECTIONIST I've always been fascinated by those moments in history when a large group of people is seized by the desire to live by the highest possible [...]

Coronary dissection extending to the ascending aorta is an uncommon complication of invasive coronary procedures which carries a life-threatening risk. The performance of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) at centers without emergency surgical instruments has increased awareness of potential complications. We report a case of iatrogenic aortocoronary dissection in a patient admitted with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) who was treated during angioplasty.

At some point in my early years of studying Old English, I ran across Jorge Luis Borges's 'Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf'. The sonnet begins with the speaker [...]

Last Friday, after an exhausting week, I approached my bookshelves looking for a novel to relax with. This should be easier than it is. Although books are taking over the [...]

The reason I can never change my name is to be found on my bookshelf. My grandfather Mircea's enduring passion was for a short, easy-to-overlook poetic form: the epigram. Verse [...]

Stress, anxiety, overwork and the poor health that ensues feel like modern conditions. I'm generally tempted to ascribe them to some pernicious technological advancement, and I don't think I'm entirely [...]

Near the ice cream parlor he waits hand pressed to the small of his back stomach slouched under yellow shirt the bored pose of an odalisque in an old painting [...]

I am in Toronto, teaching a course on public writing to academics, and rereading Pale Fire. Despite only reading it once before, about twenty years ago, this novel forms part [...]

I have been reading The Book of Margery Kempe with my students lately. It's a treat: even late in the semester students can't help but have strong reactions to this [...]

A recent cold put me out of commission for a week. I suffered from the moderately ill person's predicament: too groggy to work or do any worthwhile reading, but unable [...]

I LIVE IN A PLACE THAT CARES A LOT ABOUT GARBAGE. Garbage is not just a utility here, but a way of life. A normal person might be tempted to [...]

KNOWING MY DOWNMARKET tastes in procrastination material, the YouTube algorithm has begun offering me videos about celebrity plastic surgery. The genre is standardized. An expert--either a plastic surgeon or a [...]

War is fun from a distance. This is why epics are set in the past: manufactured nostalgia is one way to make the violence of conflict bearable. Take Beowulf, which [...]

This autumn teachers returning to the classroom have a new reason to worry. Since ChatGPT was released to the general public in November 2022, conjuring up a term paper, a [...]