,
Anna Della Subin

Anna Della Subin’s Followers (25)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Anna Della Subin


Website


Anna Della Subin writes about sleepwalkers, grave worship, imperial Ethiopian court etiquette, visions of the flood, thirteenth-century oculists, occultists, cricket, ritualized mutiny, Dr. Death's childhood, dreams of 9/11, the politics of the afterlife, 300-year naps.

She is a Senior Editor at Bidoun, the award-winning publishing and curatorial initiative focused on the Middle East and its diasporas. Anna Della studied philosophy and classics at the University of Chicago and the history of religion at Harvard Divinity School.

Accidental Gods, a history of men inadvertently turned into deities, is forthcoming from Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt in the US and Granta in the UK.
...more

Average rating: 3.64 · 770 ratings · 129 reviews · 5 distinct worksSimilar authors
Laziness in the Fertile Valley

by
3.93 avg rating — 591 ratings — published 1948 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Hospital

by
3.51 avg rating — 445 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Accidental Gods: On Men Unw...

3.56 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 2021 — 14 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Not Dead But Sleeping

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Granta Em Língua Portuguesa...

by
3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Anna Della Subin…
Quotes by Anna Della Subin  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“Rather than making claims as to what people really believed -- for one can never truly know -- let us ask why these stories exist, why they have been constructed and retold, and how they have shaped our world.”
Anna Della Subin, Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
Goodreads Choice ...: Theresa's 2022 Yearly Challenges 4 203 Jan 02, 2022 11:06AM  


Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Anna to Goodreads.