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Atlantic Unbound | Archive
Toby Lester ..... Recent articles by Toby Lester: Map QuestA journey through Alsace-Lorraine to the town that gave America its name. Notes from AntiquityWatching a play by Euripides or reading poetry by Sappho is perhaps as incomplete an experience today as watching a "play" by Wagner or reading "poetry" by Stephen Sondheim would be. Oh, Gods!Religion didn't begin to wither away during the twentieth century, as some academic experts had prophesied. Far from it. And the new century will probably see religion explode—in both intensity and variety. New religions are springing up everywhere. Old ones are mutating with Darwinian restlessness. And the big "problem religion" of the twenty-first century may not be the one you think. The Reinvention of PrivacyIt used to be that business and technology were considered the enemies of privacy. Not anymore. What Is the Koran?Researchers with a variety of academic and theological interests are proposing controversial theories about the Koran and Islamic history, and are striving to reinterpret Islam for the modern world. This is, as one scholar puts it, a "sensitive business" New-Alphabet Disease?It's tough suddenly changing from one alphabet to another. Azerbaijan is on its third one this century. Tracking India's Bandit QueenA conversation with Mary Anne Weaver. Emily Dickinson (Un)discoveredEarly in its existence The Atlantic failed to recognize the potential of one of the most formidable American poets of the nineteenth century. |
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