Coming soon: Issue 13 of Athenaeum Review!
Coming soon!
A special issue of Athenaeum Review on “Crisis and Rupture,” guest edited by Nils Roemer.
Including:
“Desirable Futures—New Histories” — Nils Roemer
“Video Games and the Cheerful Apocalypse” — Monica Evans
“Slow Catastrophe: Eileen Chang’s “Blossoms Afloat, Flowers Adrift” and the Archive” — Mai Wang
“Notes on ALHAMBRA” — Fred Curchack
“Hearing the Howl Beneath the Hardscape: Sinkholes, Hell Portals, and Earth-mouths” — Katie Fisher
“Crossing Borders, Resisting Rupture: Storytelling in Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand” — Shivika Mathur
“The Concentric Circles of Memory: Global Approaches to the Holocaust” — Mehak Burza
Front cover artwork: Francesca Brunetti, Untitled, from The Mushrooms of Plato’s Cave, 2023. Watercolor and digital drawing.
Athenaeum Review publishes essays, reviews, and podcasts by leading scholars in the arts and humanities.
Images Against Oblivion
Contemporary artists continue this inheritance, extending visual remembrance into the present through forms that often blur the boundaries between pedagogy, family archive, and creative testimony.
Generative AI in the Context of the Arts and Humanities
The task ahead may not simply be to create frameworks for the integration of generative AI into higher learning, but the extent to which AI will require a fundamental rethinking of higher education.
AI: A Studio Approach
Rather than replacing traditional modes of authorship, AI prompts iterative exploration that fuels artistic growth.
The Concentric Circles of Memory
The Holocaust functions not merely as a historical event, but as a globally circulating point of reference through which societies negotiate questions of identity, morality, and historical responsibility.
Two Versions of Dystopia
Dream Hotel foregrounds our willingness to sacrifice privacy, considerable sums of money, and the well-being of the less fortunate for our own immediate comfort.
Three Books About Life and Death
Lear explores the fundamental contradiction between the quite extraordinary state of science and medicine—our highly developed understanding of how the body works and how to fix it when it goes wrong—and our lack of knowledge about the hidden nature of consciousness itself, or how the body and soul combine to make what we call life.
Mark Celinscak and Mehnaz Afridi, eds. Global Approaches to the Holocaust: Memory, History, and Representation. University of Nebraska Press, 312pp., $35 paper.
Andrew Graham-Dixon, Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found. W.W. Norton, 416pp., $45 cloth.
Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel. Pantheon, 336pp., $29 cloth.