Literature
A Review of Guillermo del Toro’s…
Has there been a good film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein? The most famous…
The Not-So-Curious Persistence of J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings still resonates, especially among men. Why? Source link
That Head of Gold – Kevin D. Williamson
Even Julius Caesar knew better. “You all did see that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a…
Inventing the American Ghost Story
When I was in college, the house across the street from mine was said to be haunted. I never entered…
When a Titan Is Snubbed – Nick Pompella
I am not a scholar of Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine author who co-founded the genre called…
Hell Is a Research University – Nadya Williams
In 2008, the academic job market crashed and never recovered. I know this for a very particular…
To Read, or Not to Read?
Why America’s next crisis might be one of imagination, not information. Source link
There Are No Silver Bullets for Illiteracy –…
Overall, the country is not headed in the right direction when it comes to reading test scores. In…
Why Snobbery Is Cheap – The Dispatch
The story moves between Holocaust scenes in the 1940s and the Contra insurgency in the 1980s,…
The Necessity of Pruning Our Busy Lives – Estee…
I swore I would never join a book club, and yet here I was, on my way. For years, I told myself I…
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