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Field Guide to Falling Ill: A Conversation with Jonathan Gleason
Field Guide to Falling Ill is Jonathan Gleason’s prizewinning collection of essays on disease,medicine, and humanity. We sit down with Gleason in this interview to discuss the capacity oflanguage to express, experimental essays, HIV/AIDS, moving beyond medical establishments,the heart, and more. Tell us more about the title of Field Guide to Falling Ill. Jonathan Gleason: The title began as an…Read More
A Modern History of Muslim Gender
Faisal Devji— In the middle of the nineteenth century, Islam began to lose its meaning as a set of beliefs or practices. Instead of describing something that Muslims did, Islam came to be seen as an actor in its own right. Initially understood as a civilization, and later, in the twentieth century, as an ideology, Islam became a protagonist in…Read More