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The Desert Away from Home: Amos Oz’s Memoir, Levinasian Ethics, and Binaries of Pain in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

This essay describes Amos Oz’s encounter in the desert with a Bedouin woman in his Tale of Love and Darkness (2004). The encounter transforms the politics of the land by reminding readers that a Jewish home is also homelessness and the desert is a nomadic space that represents both home and exile. The desert allows Oz to transform a Joshua-like conquest story to a place where Levinas’ responsib...

Mate choice turns cognitive.

Evolutionary psychology has revolutionized research on human mate choice and sexual attraction in recent years, combining a rigorous Darwinian framework based on sexual selection theory with a loosely cognitivist orientation to task analysis and mechanism modelling. This hard Darwinian, soft computational approach has been most successful at revealing the adaptive logic behind physical beauty, ...

Stroke turns 40.

Crumbs turns the corner

rumbs (Crb) helps flies distinguish apical from basal in their epithelia. Now two new studies show that it is required for cell expansion independently of its specification of apical polarity. During cell expansion, the apical domain of photoreceptors elongates perpendicular to the apical–basal axis so that the domain can extend from the top to the bottom of the fly eye. The process may be cons...