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Amos Funkenstein || Robert Alter

Anything Goes: The Work of Art and the Historical Future || Arthur Danto

Berlin in Autumn: The Philosopher in Old Age || Michael Ignatieff

Cannabis, Forgetting and the Botany of Desire || Michael Pollan

Carnal Knowledge || Wendy Doniger

Changelings: Children’s Stories Lost and Found || Maurice Sendak

The Charisma of Sport and Race || Gerald Early

Complex Histories, Contested Memories: Some Reflections on Remembering Difficult Pasts || Eva Hoffman

Confronting the Turkish Dogs: Rabelais and His Critics || Natalie Zemon Davis

Dark Raptures: Mike Davis’ L.A. || Mike Davis

Deadly Disputes: The Body in Death in Japan, North America, and Europe || Margaret Lock

Euthanasia Policy in the Netherlands || Bert Keizer

Fictions and Histories || Ivan Klima

Getting Real: The Arts in Post-NEA America || Peter Sellars

Grounds for Remembering || Maya Lin

Identity Against Culture: Understandings of Multiculturalism || Kwame Anthony Appiah

Image and Text || Robert Pinsky and Michael Mazur

Knowledge Work, Literary History, and the Future of Literary Studies || Alan Liu

Migrations || Sebastião Salgado

The Novel in Africa || J.M. Coetzee

Old Age as Lifestyle in an Active Society || Stephen Katz

On Politics and Literature || Kenzaburô Ôe

Painting from Memory: Aging, Dementia, and the Art of Willem de Kooning || T.J. Clark

Seeing the Difference: Conversations on Death and Dying || Christina Gillis, ed.

Sounding Lines: The Art of Translating Poetry, A Conversation || Seamus Heaney and Robert Haas

Telling Stories || Kathleen Woodward

Traditions of Conversion: Descartes and His Demon || Anthony Grafton