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A Very Brief History of Gouged-Out Eyes
Workshop of Perugino, Study of the Head of a Youth Gazing Upward, late fifteenth–early sixteenth century. Throughout history, people have often gouged out each other’s eyes, and they still do, only...
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Eating the Fruit
Over the centuries, there have been innumerable interpretations of the story of Adam and Eve. This week on the Daily, Stephen Greenblatt, the author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, retells some...
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The Tree of Knowledge, Good, and Evil
Over the centuries, there have been innumerable interpretations of the story of Adam and Eve. This week on the Daily, Stephen Greenblatt, the author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, retells some...
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Sex in the Garden
Over the centuries, there have been innumerable interpretations of the story of Adam and Eve. This week on the Daily, Stephen Greenblatt, the author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, retells some...
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The Day After
Over the centuries, there have been innumerable interpretations of the story of Adam and Eve. This week on the Daily, Stephen Greenblatt, the author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, retells some...
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Sex in the Garden
We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2017. Enjoy your holiday! William Blake, Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve (detail), 1808. The serpent,...
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Staff Picks: Good Guys, Goose Fat, and Ghosts of Mars
Kristen Roupenian. Photo: Elisa Roupenian Toha. There was a time when I found online dating apps addictive. It was a guiltless game: arbitrarily judging prospects by a series of photos, a far-fetched...
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Is It Ever Okay to Depict Muhammad?
The above image, portraying Muhammad as a boy, circulated widely in Iran throughout the later twentieth century and can read as a hadith in its own way. (Hadiths signify the sayings and actions of...
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Schizophrenia and the Supernatural
The Rider-Waite tarot deck, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. One winter morning I shuffled a deck of oracle cards with my eyes closed, and I realized that despite the blackness, I could still see...
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Diary, 2011
To my retroactive disappointment, the journals I keep—I fill about one marble composition book a year—are an undifferentiated, undated jumble of fiction drafts, semifictionalized self-reflections,...
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