Jennifer Banks

@jenniferabanks

Executive Editor | poetry, religion, fiction, philosophy | writing a book about birth for

Vrijeme pridruživanja: svibanj 2017.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. 29. sij

    One of the earliest (1200’s) recorded accounts of inter-religious dialogue: “When it was all over, the Nestorians and Saracens alike sang in loud voices, while the tuins [Buddhists] remained silent; and after that everyone drank heavily.”

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  2. 28. sij

    A New Englander’s idea of ravishingly beauty. (Still-life through an Amtrak train window)

  3. 23. sij

    “All of us... are so fashioned by nature that we can live our lives free from error and nobly; not that one can and another cannot, but all.” - Musonius Rufus (, Feb., almost fits in the palm of my hand)

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  4. 21. sij

    Isn’t it amazing how the ancient philosophers gave lectures on beards? (Musonius Rufus / THAT ONE SHOULD DISDAIN HARDSHIPS).

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  5. 18. sij

    I took a Saturday trip down to my New Haven office and look what I found. Pubbing March 3. Congratulations to on another beautiful book out with !

  6. 16. sij

    Bedside reading pile is getting a little out of control.

  7. 12. sij

    Medieval depiction of multiples in utero (from Muscio’s Gynaecia).

  8. 9. sij

    Work/life balance momentarily achieved! I found this on my home office monitor this morning.

  9. 30. pro 2019.

    Winter: before 900; (noun) Middle English, Old English; cognate with German Winter, Old Norse vetr, Gothic wintrus; (v.) Middle English, derivative of the noun; akin to wet, water

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  10. 27. pro 2019.

    Reading with kids, on the cusp of January, looking back at August... “Often at night there is thunder, but it quivers all alone .” - Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting See this “strange and breathless” opening...

  11. 12. pro 2019.

    I must have a ‘mind of winter’ because few things make me happier than this.

  12. 7. pro 2019.

    It warms my heart when my kids’ make-believe is publishing themed.

  13. 26. stu 2019.

    Always nice when you board a plane in San Diego and the person next to you is reading a book you edited (David Bentley Hart / That All Share Be Saved).

  14. 14. stu 2019.

    I was brought to Japan to advise Japanese authors on how to publish more in English but will leave Tokyo enamored with Japanese bookshelf.

  15. 4. stu 2019.

    Stephen Batchelor on the “middle ground of solitude... a site of autonomy, wonder, contemplation, imagination, inspiration, and care.” This one really bewitched me. Out Feb 2020.

  16. 8. lis 2019.

    Trying to make sense of how a woman known for her ideas about the banality of evil also believed that “the miracle that saves the world... is ultimately the fact of natality.” On love and birth. Thanks to for publishing this important piece in that puzzle.

  17. 1. lis 2019.

    A belated Translator’s day shout-out to Edward Greenstein whose new translation of Job came out last month from YUP after nearly a half century of devoted work. Human experience hangs on his rendering of a few key passages. Spoiler alert: Greenstein’s Job does not surrender.

  18. 30. ruj 2019.

    The heart can be a murky place and Byron may be no sage but still it made me absurdly hopeful to find this scrawled without explanation in my daughter’s old notebook from fourth grade.

  19. 27. ruj 2019.

    Robert Walser fans be on alert: has delivered her extraordinary biography of Walser, so perfectly subtitled Clairvoyant of the Small. So powerful to experience both Walser and ‘s ‘extreme artistic delight.’

  20. 26. ruj 2019.

    Galleys going out for Laurel Leff's Well Worth Saving, on the harrowing hiring decisions universities made involving refugee scholars from Nazi Germany. A sobering must-read for all of us making consequential decisions, from hiring to publishing, in academia & beyond. Dec pub.

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