Perspective: The renaissance that American universities need. Story by John Johnson • 1w. Y ears ago, as a young academic, I found myself seated in an antebellum inn in Oxford, Mississippi.

That is the point all these artists have been trying to make: Life goes on in the end, so each person must live fully to understand and internalize their own perspective. Jina Umakanthan is a rising ...

“Perspective(s)” may be set during the Italian Renaissance, but its vision of the period is absurd, antic, slightly askew, steeped in art history and underpinned by an aficionado’s delight ...

Though “Perspective(s)” offers moments of escapism, its opening parallel between exalted past and prosaic present is Binet’s first hint that his observations reach beyond the Renaissance.