Arguably America’s finest writer of the 20th century, Flannery O’Connor was born 100 years ago. Although she has been dead…
We are nearing the culmination of my course in medieval literature at Thales College, reading Dante’s La Vita Nuova, to…
Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories By Yukio Mishima (Vintage International, 272 pages, $16) There has always been…
According to recent reports, if you are a student at the University of Nottingham and you are going to sign…
Seeking something light to read following the Christmas doldrums I decided to look into what I remembered as one of…
There’s a sage line in the 1972 Western classic, Jeremiah Johnson, written by the great John Milius. An old mountain…
Not a great many English-speaking Americans — there still are some — have heard of Boualem Sansal, fewer have read…
This week at Thales College, my students encountered T. S. Eliot’s broken epic of social, spiritual, and intellectual fragmentation, The…
