Dr. Stephen Sohn The journey that this article took to publication was quite long. I wrote the initial draft of what would be published in JNT around 2008, when I was working on my first book, Racial Asymmetries. At that…
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JNT 50.2 Featured Author: Dr. Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar
Dr. Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar As of today, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend saga has sold over ten million copies around the world. A global phenomenon, Ferrante has cemented her reputation as one of this century’s most formidable storytellers. This…
JNT 50.2 Featured Author: Dr. Christopher Douglas
Dr. Christopher Douglas I read Natsume Sōseki’s first novel, I am a Cat (1905-06), while teaching in a costal community in Chiba Prefecture as a part of the JET Programme after completing my bachelor’s degree. I tried to use my…
A Brief History of JNT
A Brief History of JNT by Paul Bruss Note from the Editors: This 50th Anniversary Issue was introduced by Paul Bruss, who played a key role in steering the journal through a critical five-year transition, 1993–99 (Vol. 23–27), when it…
JNT 50.1 Featured Author: Dr. Ruchi Mundeja
Dr. Ruchi Mundeja “Everyone lives in a story,” says Tridib — in one of my all-time favorite lines — in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines. Does our critical work also take succor from stories? How do scholarly output and story,…
JNT 49.3 Featured Author: Dr. Samantha Pinto
Dr. Samantha Pinto I have small children, so I find myself at various natural history and children’s science museums across the country, as well as awash in dinosaur and prehistoric animal factbooks at home. As someone who remains attentive —…
JNT 49.3 Featured Author: Dr. Christine Hume
Dr. Christine Hume I first came across the Nylon Riots while researching parachutes for a short essay I was commissioned to write for an art catalogue years ago. It stayed with me; no one I know had heard of the…
