Launched in 1999, "Afterall" is a journal of contemporary art that offers in-depth analysis of artists' work, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Its academic format differentiates it from popular review magazines. I...

There's nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet – a dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets, however, are a rarity among animals who have been domesticated. Farm animals, for example, are usu...

Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Judgment", Thierry de Duve argues in the first volume of "Aesthetics at Large", is as relevant to the appreciation of art today as it was to the enjoyment of beautiful nature in 1790. Going against the grain of all aesthe...

We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation – not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what...

What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men – and occasionally women – who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors o...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Atlas of Religions in Czechia" represents the first comprehensive geographical analysis of the religious landscape of Czechia and its transformation since the fall of communism in 198...

The U. S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program was established in 1990 and is still going strong today. This monograph chronicles the history of the first 20 years of the ARM Program and provides descriptions of its...

Today, democracy is seen as the best or even the only legitimate form of government – hardly in need of defense. Delba Winthrop punctures this complacency and takes up the challenge of justifying democracy through Aristotle's political science. In Ar...

"There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are". So begins Lawrence Lessig sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it – from the se...

Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, and xenophobia, along with paeans to "traditional values", in brazen bids for electoral support. How do we understand this move to the mainstrea...