Newsletter #9

It has been a long while since our last email update—my apologies to those of you who rely on newsletters to track new content. In the last month and a half we have published some wonderful work that I am quite proud of and the work that has been going on behind the scenes will not disappoint either. Over the course of the next few weeks we will be giving further updates on some projects that extend beyond our regular essays. New episodes from the Phronesis podcast will also be coming soon.

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Appreciatively,

Bradley Davis

Essays

• "Sex Is (Not) For England" by Mary Townsend
• "Salinger: An Introduction" by Sam Buntz
• "Men at Work: The Economics of 'The Spiral of Violence'" by Dave Atenasio
• "Tradition and the Timeless: Didactic Traditions as Impressions of Eternity from Al-Farabi to T. S. Eliot" by Esmé L. K. Partridge
• "Arise to Wisdom: Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy ibn Yaqzan as Parody" by Nur Banu Simsek
• "Living Without Belonging: Metaphysics and Critical Theory" by Jonathan Culbreath
• "Netflix Necromancy: On True Crime" by Benjamin Roberts and Ryan Shinkel
• "Constrcuting Rita Hayworth: Hollywood and the Genesis of Simulated Beauty" by Katherine Bayford
• "Rebehold the Stars" by Elena Attfield

Reviews

• "Modern Lives: H. H. Asquith" by Eamonn Bellin
• "Against National Solidarity: A Review of Samuel Goldman's After Nationalism" by Max Bodach
• "Soup of Stories: Did Tolkien Cheat His Readers? A Review of Holly Ordway's Tolkien's Modern Reading by Rachel Fulton Brown
• "A Philosopher, Perhaps: A Review of Peter Salmon's An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida by Matt Dinan

Interviews

• Steven Smith: Reclaiming Patriotism
• Holly Ordway: Tolkien as a Modern Reader

Phronesis Podcast

• Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Intellect" with special guest John Holzwarth

A long list of essays and other content to get through there, so we will leave off links from other sites this week. We hope you enjoy our work and ask that you share it with your friends and colleagues. If possible, please consider financially supporting our mission as well. Thanks!