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Column: The Body in Browns Canyon
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As his body strains to complete a tough hike through Brown Canyon National Monument, Eric O. Scott contemplates the unit of mind and body.
Arts & Culture
A new “Beowulf” confronts misogyny in the text – and its translators
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Eric O. Scott reviews the new translation of Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley, which features modern slang and a focus on the poem’s relationship to the women within it.
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Column: The Ashes of the Old
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As wildfires rage across the western United States, Eric O. Scott ponders the role of prayer, magick, and circular time in finding a way out of this current destructive stage of the world.
Anne Carson
Column: The Madness of Herakles
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Eric O. Scott considers the questions about the nature of the gods raised in Anne Carson’s translation of Euripides’s play “Herakles.”
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Column: Two Ravens
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Eric O. Scott recalls meeting a pair of corvids in the Mercado de Sonora in Mexico City.