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NOVANEWS By James A. Lucas  INTRODUCTION After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few people at that time attempted to promote...

OCTOBER 12 In History 539 BCE : The Persian armies of Cyrus the Great captured Babylon .  Within the year, Cyrus would make it possible for the Jews to return to their homeland. 1285: The Jews of Munich ( Germany ) were caught in a claim of blood...

If managerial and bureaucratic incompetence don’t sink Barack Obama’s “signature legislation” before it gets going, more people will have health insurance, thanks to the inaptly named Affordable Care Act, than ever before; not...

 Guest post by Virginia Konchan Modern-day treatments of what Jeffrey Eugenides (in honor of Austen) termed the “marriage plot” include post-romantic polemics (Laura Kipnis’ 2004 Against Love), tried and true arguments for...

Here it is. If you’re the kind that doesn’t like to just jump into things, full TOC after the jump. Works“> Serious Immobilities: Reflections on Edouard Levé’s Works By Eric Lundgren It seems apt that the first sentence of Edouard Levé’s first...