Straddling science and Judaism, this general issue of Mosaic presents essays that apply physics to Gravity’s Rainbow, Freud’s theory of sexuality to Milton and St. Augustine, the nature of Macbeth’s cruelty to human psychology, and Marxism to F. Scott Fitzgerald. It also features a kabala-based reading of Norman Mailer’s sexual politics, the Jewishness of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s metaphysics, and Francis Bacon’s scientific use of the prophets.