3.29.19
Reading revelation
1.31.19
Diva nation: Female icons from Japanese cultural history
7.18.18
The many lives of Michelangelo
6.4.18
Saint Peter, according to Mark
10.26.17
Frankenstein, the Concert: How to Create a Musical Monster
7.26.17
How to Sit on the Iron Throne: Power and Violence in "Game of Thrones" and History
2.1.17
Good Gaucho Gone Bad: The Creole Drama
2.16.17
The Legal Mind of Thomas Jefferson
2.8.17
Love music across time
1.25.17
Staging the Blues: The Ma Rainey Story
1.19.17
Performing Emotion: Freemasons and the Theater of Ritual
9.15.21
Performing Gold: Fanny Kemble, Modern Banking, and the Evolution of Acting
10.24.15
Pilgrim Fathers: How the Thanksgiving we know and love was manufactured
10.26.16
"Do You Like Scary Movies?" Horror Films & Things That Make Us Scream
9.14.16
Theater for Health
9.7.16
Eating Organic in Nazi Germany
8.24.16
The Philosophy of Cancer
8.17.16
Pain: A Cultural History
8.10.16
Venus, Deconstructed
8.3.16
Galen and the Elephant's Heart
7.27.16
The Non-sense of art
7.20.16
Shame: Friend or Enemy?
7.13.16
Grief and Memoir: Writing about the Tough Stuff
7.6.16
On Plot: Captain Happen & Other Devices
6.29.16
Voice and Vocation in Nonfiction
7.21.15
"The Quality of Mercy": A Shakespearean Theme
3.16.16
Religion and Comic Books: A Tangled Web
3.15.16
Claude Monet and the science of style
1.26.16
Violence and Memory
9.10.20
Remembering Baghdad
10.31.14
The Witches' Hammer: Magic and Law in Early Modern Europe
7.14.15
Battle of the Sexes: The Women of Shakespeare
7.7.15
Commedia dell'Arte & the Tragicomedy: Shakespeare's Italian Influences
6.30.15
Friends and Rivals: Shakespeare and the Competition
6.23.15
The Upstart Crow: Shakespeare's feud with Robert Greene
6.17.15
Getting Lost with Radiolab: A Conversation with Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich
6.9.15
The Birth of Theater As We Know It
5.25.15
The Real Antony and Cleopatra
5.18.15
Shakespeare: In the Park & in the Streets
2.19.15
Memories of Chinese New Year
1.29.15
How to Write a Bad Poem
1.14.15
Faith and protest in Ferguson
12.11.14
Anarchism and dissent in medieval Islam
11.6.14
Being "post-Protestant"
10.23.14
Evangelical vs. Ecumenical: The Protestant two-party system
3.12.14
Jane Eyre and the Art of Translation
4.30.14
Chinese Writing and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
10.16.14
The Mormon Citizen
10.9.14
God, oil, and pipeline politics
10.1.14
In birth control we trust
7.23.14
The Politician and the Poet
7.16.14
Courting the Muse
7.2.14
Pranking Emily Dickinson
6.25.14
Untethered Histories
6.3.14
Please Burn After Reading
4.4.14
Behind the Mask, Part 2: The Evolution of a Genre
4.2.14
Behind the Mask, Part 1: Superheroes and Supervillains
3.26.14
The Foreign Language Question
2.26.14
Youth Poets Take the Stage
12.17.13
Uncovering Numismatics
10.30.13
Pearl Curran: "Ghost"-writer
10.18.13
The Ghost in the Machine
10.18.13
A Room of One's Own
10.18.13
Slippery Nonfiction
10.18.13
Translating Dante
10.16.13
Art and nationhood
9.25.13
Girlhood in Hollywood
9.11.13
Rock and revolution
9.4.13
Who should sing "Ol' Man River"?
8.28.13
Stripes and scars
6.24.13
A life in verse: A Conversation with Carl Phillips and Timothy Moore
6.10.13
Classical Theater
4.15.13
A Tale of Dual Cities
3.19.13
City of the Big Shoulders, Part II
3.19.13
City of the Big Shoulders
2.4.13
The Many Lives of Apollonius
12.17.12
"Reperformance" and Memory
11.5.12
Creating a Federal Government
10.26.12
A Man of Faith and Science: Pope Benedict XIV
10.22.12
"Postmemory" and the Second Generation
10.8.12
Amnesia and Identity
