Overview :When Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett answered his jury duty summons, he expected to spend a few days catching up on his reading in the... Read More
Overview :Are we paying enough attention? At least since the nineteenth century, critics have alleged a widespread and profound failure of attentivene... Read More
Overview :The real history of the covey of attention-artists who call themselves The Birds. A great deal of uncertainty--and even some genuine confusi... Read More
Overview :In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and ca... Read More
Overview :From the Bible's "Canst thou raise leviathan with a hook?" to Captain Ahab's "From Hell's heart I stab at thee ," from the trials of Job to ... Read More
Overview :In 1629, the natural philosopher René Descartes enticed a young artisan to undertake a secretive project, one that promised to revolutionize... Read More