Erich Auerbach, from Mimesis

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., from The Signifying Monkey

Peter Hessler, from Hamlet Meets Mao

On Plato and Aristotle

Mary Louise Pratt, from Imperial Eyes

New Yorker Cover 2003

Religions of the Book: Language and The Word in Hebrew Scriptures and Jewish Thought

The Word in the New Testament and Christian Tradition

Milton Viorst, from In the Shadow of the Prophet

Aaron Zeitlin, Edward Taylor, "Poems"