Issue 9 is here!
Athenaeum Review publishes essays, reviews, and podcasts by leading scholars in the arts and humanities.
Retelling the Story of American Music
Dvořák practiced what he preached, and the result was (in the view of many) the finest work of American classical music ever written.
A Trans-Atlantic Migration
Bois and his colleagues at October changed, for a few decades, the way that art historians dealing with modernism in America worked.
A State of Speechless Wonder and Awe
For Adams, beauty is “a synonym for coherence and structure underlying life… beauty is the overriding demonstration of pattern that one observes.”
Book of Earth
Ochre and earth pigment are situated at the nexus of huge elemental cycles, a gazillion years of outer space galaxy creation, a few billion years of geological and biological growth on (and of) Earth, and several hundred thousand recent years of human evolution.
The Quiet Dr. Einstein and the Forgotten Moral Heroes of World War I
Contrasted with the daring actions of Adler and Nicolai, Einstein’s early pacifism seems very appealing because it is similar to the low-level pacifist behaviors that many of us exhibit.
Four Sour and Stringent Proposals for the Novel
Valuing novels for the social information they contribute, as many literary prizes do, is like judging dogs for fetching.
Gjekë Marinaj, Teach Me How to Whisper: Horses and Other Poems, translated from the Albanian by Frederick Turner and Gjekë Marinaj. Syracuse University Press, 223pp., $40 paper.
Frederick Turner, Latter Days. Franciscan University Press, 160pp., $15 paper.
Stephen Smith, The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on Its Way to the Old Continent. Polity Press, $23, 200pp. paperback.