Bret Stephens Touts Willa Cather As ‘Perfect Antidote’ To Trump. NYT Readers Shred Them Both
Dozens of leftist readers wrote to accuse Willa Cather of anti-Semitism, nativist bias, white-washing Indian genocide, and other crimes against humanity.
A Literary Exploration Of The Differences Between Man And Machine
Venerable British novelist Ian McEwan’s latest, ‘Machines Like Me,’ imagines an intriguing, but ultimately disappointing, past where Alan Turing never died and humanity is forced to confront advanced artificial intelligence in the 1980s.
How To Turn Your Children Into Readers For Life
‘Raising readers’ isn’t just another checkbox on some list of things to feel like good parents. It is instead an opportunity to free us from the tyranny of artificial parenting pressures.
Why Herman Wouk’s ‘War’ Novels Deserve Remembrance Today
The best way to remember—or discover—the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Herman Wouk may be his World War II epics.
Inside The Life And Christianity Of Legendary Sci-Fi Author Gene Wolfe
The legendary sci-fi author’s reputation has waned in recent years, but his death is a chance to reevaluate Wolfe’s remarkable world-building and singular talent.
Paul Hollander Explained Why Smart People Support Totalitarianism
The chronicler of the foolish, utopian ways of thinking that ail so many intellectual elites will be sorely missed by many.
Make 2019 The Year You Read ‘The Iliad’ With Your Kids
There are many reasons you should push this amazing text to the top of your family reading list in 2019.
Why Even Non-Christians Lose From Growing Ignorance About The Bible
This is a loss not only of the Bible or Christian faith but a severing of his connection to all the other aspects of a culture that ought to have been ours.
‘Les Miserables’ Reveals The Only Vision Of Change That Can Ever Hope To Succeed
‘Les Mis’ shows us a world resembling our own: a society filled with wealth, but rife with injustice. The play offers us hope for change in the form of two young revolutionaries.
How Mark Twain Created The Great American Hero
In ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,’ Mark Twain creates a heroic archetype that is uniquely American.
How Mark Twain Championed Self-Government Through Humor And Realism
Mark Twain rejected the simplistic, good-guys-always-win type of Sunday school stories with overtly moral themes that he was raised on.
Why Studying Mark Twain Is Essential To Understanding America Today
‘The young love hardly anything better than to laugh. And if they do love something more than that, they love to learn more than that. If you read Mark Twain, you get to do both at the same time.’
Podcast: Walker Percy’s Faith And Crisis Of Self-Knowledge
Jennifer A. Frey, assistant philosophy professor, discusses understanding the struggles, novels, and desires of Southern writer Walker Percy.
Why ‘Mansfield Park’ Was Jane Austen’s Best Novel
Modern readers aren’t quite as interested in a tale where virtue is rewarded and vice punished, but it’s her best regardless.
How Jane Austen Pulled Off A Feat Of Genius In ‘Northanger Abbey’
In her satirical take on Gothic fiction, Austen pokes fun at some of the overwrought conventions prevalent at the time, but is careful not to condemn the genre as a whole.
Jane Austen Explains Why Real Life Is More Mysterious Than Fiction
Throughout ‘Northanger Abbey,’ Jane Austen explains why an untempered imagination can be misleading, and why real life is more mysterious than fiction.
Jane Austen’s ‘Northanger Abbey’ Illustrates Why Manners Matter
Jane Austen finds value in the social conventions of her day throughout the pages of ‘Northanger Abbey,’ because manners do matter.
Reading The Great Books Well Should Transcend Moralism
Karen Swallow Prior’s ‘On Reading Well’ offers some excellent advice for drawing moral lessons from literature, but sometimes great art proves so ambiguous that drawing pat conclusions is difficult.
Why Jane Austen Made An Ordinary Girl The Heroine Of ‘Northanger Abbey’
A woman doesn’t need to be impossibly beautiful or virtuous in order to overcome challenges like a protagonist in a novel.
How Jane Austen’s ‘Northanger Abbey’ Reveals Her Satirical Genius
Reading ‘Northanger Abbey’ is essential to understanding Jane Austen’s use of satire throughout the entire canon of her books.
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