Now available: Issue 13 of Athenaeum Review!
A special issue of Athenaeum Review on “Crisis and Rupture,” guest edited by Nils Roemer, is now available.
Athenaeum Review publishes essays, reviews, and podcasts by leading scholars in the arts and humanities.
Slow Catastrophe
In many ways, Chang’s life as an immigrant with no fixed address was defined by her ability to endure one crisis after another.
Video Games and the Cheerful Apocalypse
Cheerful post-apocalyptic games emphasize the beauty and idyllic nature of the unpopulated natural world, rather than its isolating loneliness; as well as the strong, supportive nature of survivors’ communities.
Desirable Futures—New Histories
To write as historians of the future is not to predict what will happen; it is to narrate what becomes possible if institutions, communities, and individuals act differently.
The Limitless Potentiality of Music
Rorem has no patience for music that blurs the distinction between life and the art of music. Music must retain its sacred quality connected to the artist’s inner world.
Not Just a Neutral Container
We need this show because it has taken this long to understand the truly radical implications of Duchamp’s visual thinking— to grasp the ways that his concern was to transform not only the nature of the artwork, but also the institutions that house artworks, art museums.
Know Self
The artifacts tell us that Buddhism is about being human: the human ability to be mindful of our actions and aware of the Buddha’s spiritual message.
Ned Rorem, Critical Affairs: A Composer’s Journal. George Braziller, 1970, 216pp. Kindle version, Open Road Media, 2013.
Elizabeth McCracken, A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction. Ecco, $21.60 paper.
Mark Celinscak and Mehnaz Afridi, eds. Global Approaches to the Holocaust: Memory, History, and Representation. University of Nebraska Press, 312pp., $35 paper.