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80 years ago, four thinkers refused to teach classes in skirts and challenged academic orthodoxy between clandestine parties and cigarettes

Soccer player Quinn, cyclist Austin Killips, and runner Nikki Hiltz inspired us—and thousands of other fans—this year

In “Zero at the Bone,” the poet discusses love, lament, and living toward a ‘happy ending.’

Novelists and nonfiction writers reveal the books they will be giving as gifts – and the paperback they would love to find in their own stocking

An author reconstructs the constellation of writer-warriors of the 1930s, who fueled a burning Europe before dying in the flames

A new book follows four women philosophers through ten of the worst years in the 20th century, spanning 1933, the year Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, to the thick of the second world war.

In the gospel reading for today, Christ separates the sheep from the goats (you don't want to be a goat). But there are "goats" and there are "GOATs." This post is about the latter.

Those who profess the Christian faith, should remember just how radical and corrosive the faith we profess is to the status quo, assumptions, and established power.

A poetic conversation among a Palestinian Israeli psychologist, an Italian Canadian psychiatrist, and a Canadian United Church Pastor in a time of war.

When Emily Wilson translated the Odyssey, she changed the epic forever. Has she done it again with the Iliad?