From the inaugural issue of Glossator (which publishes "original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia"), Erik Butler (Emory): Benjamin at the Barricades: The Arcades Project as Combat and Intrigue; Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath (UMass-Boston): Periphery and Purpose: The Fifteenth-Century Rubrication of the Pilgrimage of Human Life; Anna Klosowska, Nicola Masciandaro on Beyond the Sphere: A Dialogic Commentary on the Ultimate Sonetto of Dante's Vita Nuova; and Michael Stone-Richards (CCS): A Commentary on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee. Building Ephemerisle: Can a party on a river lead to liberty on the sea? What a pest: Why the Black Death still won't die. An excerpt from Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon by Mark Di Vincenzo. The upside of "down with": Protesters’ secret — they’re out there because it makes them happier. Safe to say: Language indicates a shift in our thinking about sex, pain and death. The man who invented exercise: In 1949, scientist Jerry Morris studied London bus conductors and discovered a great truth, exercise can extend your life — at 99, he’s living proof. When black and white aren’t black and white: Two psychologists show that our concepts of morality and sin are mentally associated with lightness and darkness, with potentially troubling implications for criminal justice. A review of Poseidon’s Steed: The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality by Helen Scales. Should there be freedom to mislead, or how much should the state regulate claims of scientific truth?
