Anna Della Subin

Anna Della Subin is the author of Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine. (April 2023)

A Body That’s Divine

A recent book catalogs the Old Testament’s physical descriptions of God, who ate, probably drank, got mistaken for an ordinary man, and was likely circumcised.

God: An Anatomy

by Francesca Stavrakopoulou

April 6, 2023 issue

The Rules of the Confidence Game

The Book of Charlatans provides an unusual glimpse into the street life of medieval Islamic societies rarely captured in more elevated Arabic literary sources.

The Book of Charlatans

by Jamal al-Din ‘Abd al-Rahim al-Jawbari, edited by Manuela Dengler and translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

May 27, 2021 issue