October 20, 2016
Sara Talpos: “Science Writing as a Literary Art: What Are the Challenges?”
Read the previous post by Dawne Shand Read the next post by Hilda Johnston This year’s May 30 issue of The New Yorker presents a letter from reader Florian Maderspacher, […]
October 18, 2016
Dawne Shand: “On Writing Science”
Read the previous post by Karen Malpede Read the next post by Sara Talpos Before I sing the praises one of the most obscure books in the monumental stack of […]
October 13, 2016
Karen Malpede: “Science and Poetics”
Read the previous post by Joshua Roebke Read the next post by Dawne Shand Science Writing: A Playwright’s Story I am a playwright and writer with Bachelor of Science and […]
October 12, 2016
Art History in the Kenyon Review: Reading Erwin Panofsky’s “Renaissance and Renascences” from the Spring 1944 Issue
PhD qualifying exams are a grueling rite of passage for graduate students. I took mine in February for a degree in art history specializing in the Italian Renaissance. I studied […]
October 12, 2016
Joshua Roebke: “On Writing Science”
Read the previous post by E. A. Farro Read the next post by Karen Malpede Can science be the theme of literature? There are few if any barriers to literature. […]
October 10, 2016
E. A. Farro: “A Response to Jamie Zvirzdin’s ‘Observations of a Science Editor’”
Read the previous post by Karen Luper Read the next post by Joshua Roebke As a field and laboratory scientist I used my whole body for work. So totally immersed, […]
October 6, 2016
Karen Luper: “A Response to Jamie Zvirzdin’s ‘Observations of a Science Editor’”
Read the previous post by Brian Doyle Read the next post by E. A. Farro When I think about what makes science writing beautiful to me (and that beauty might […]
October 4, 2016
Brian Doyle: “A Response to Jamie Zvirzdin’s ‘Observations of a Science Editor’”
Read the previous post by Benjamin Kolp Read the next post by Karen Luper One of my pettest peeves is the ostensible dichotomy between science and religion; but this is […]
September 30, 2016
Welcome to The Poetics of Science!
Can science writing be a literary art? Here at KR, we obviously think so, and we have created a special issue—The Poetics of Science—to demonstrate the many ways in which […]
September 30, 2016
Benjamin Kolp: “A Response to Jamie Zvirzdin’s ‘Observations of a Science Editor’”
Read the previous post by Helen Betya Rubinstein Read the next post by Brian Doyle Science and Fiction: A Two-Way Street Jamie Zvirzdin’s essay shows how, in scientific papers, literary […]
September 28, 2016
Helen Betya Rubinstein: “A Response to Jamie Zvirzdin’s ‘Observations of a Science Editor’”
Read the previous post by L. Shapley Bassen Read the next post by Benjamin Kolp As Zvirzdin writes, the dichotomy between “science” and the “arts” is a false one—and the […]
September 26, 2016
L. Shapley Bassen: “A Response to Jamie Zvirzdin’s ‘Observations of a Science Editor’”
Read the previous post by Joseph Osmundson Read the next post by Helen Betya Rubinstein I laughed in recognition at the very first sentence of Jamie Zvirzdin’s lecture: “It is […]