Click Here to Read: Nina Simone: A biographer’s fantasy By Jordan Alexander Stein in The American Psychoanalyst Substack Newsletter on February 27. 2025.
Nina Simone in 1965. Image: Kroon, Ron for Anefo. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Category: Literature
Why One of the World’s Most Elusive Writers Still Haunts Readers
Click Here to Read: Why One of the World’s Most Elusive Writers Still Haunts Readers: Newly translated letters reveal the inner life of Paul Celan, offering clues to his enigmatic poems By Adrian Nathan West in the New York Times on December. 22, 2024.
Paul Celan 1938. Image: Unknown, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
How Archaeologists Discovered Europe’s Oldest-Known Book, Revealing Never-Before-Seen Insights Into Ancient Religion and Philosophy
Click Here to Read: How Archaeologists Discovered Europe’s Oldest-Known Book, Revealing Never-Before-Seen Insights Into Ancient Religion and Philosophy: Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact by Teresa Nowakowski on the Smithsonian Magazine website on January 15, 2025
Derveni papyrus. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams
What Alice Munro Knew
The chutzpah of a supposedly dying language that’s thrillingly alive
A new ‘Merchant of Venice’ production challenges anti-Jewish tropes by doubling down on them
Click Here to Read: A new ‘Merchant of Venice’ production challenges anti-Jewish tropes by doubling down on them. A “contemporary, spirited” version of Shakespeare’s play opens off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company By Joseph Strauss November 20, 2024.
Shakespeare’s comedy of the Merchant of Venice. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
