Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things

A marvel of evolution is that humans are not solely motivated by their desire to experience positive emotions. They are also motivated, and even driven to achieve, by their attempt...

Borgmann and Heidegger both understand technology as a way of coping with people and things that reveals them. Both thinkers also claim that technological coping could devastate no...

This essay explores Jack London’s last unfinished novel Cherry. It is read in the context of increasing tensions between the Japanese empire and the United States and Hawaii’s prog...

This chapter focuses on the novelty of Laurence Sterne. Sterne's early writings consisted mainly of sermons. He won both immediate celebrity and lasting literary fame, however, wit...

The gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist, Richard Ayoade, first chanced upon a copy of The Two-Hander Trilogy by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop. At fir...

What would it look like to approach the text we now call the Gospel according to Mark as unfinished notes, as opposed to a book published by an author? Chapter 7 argues that the in...

COVID-related school closures affected all students. But for students who needed in-person schooling most—students with disabilities, English learners, and students living in pover...