What Makes a Children’s Book for Children?
Forest Born of the Books of Bayern series by Shannon Hale
Category: Books
An Economist Nitpicks Sci-Fi: Employment in The Expanse
Many scientists like to nitpick science fiction, but why should they have all the fun?
Book Review: Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust (2016)
A scholarly look at how literature can help us to understand the hard work of being human.
In Praise of Youtube Pop-Culture Academics
Youtube is where intellectuals should be making community outreach.
Book notes: Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
Two scholars do a service for intellectual history in arguing how a distinguished thinker could have been so misguided.
Remembering Elie Wiesel, Novelist
The late Elie Wiesel spent his life telling stories — just not the kind he’s known for.
In Defense of Poetry
Old poetry is laden with the baggage of centuries of hidden metaphor and archaic references. New poetry is prone to abstraction and whimsical laziness. But poetry deserves our consideration as an art form nonetheless. After all, all the music we love is poetry, and all the fun little things we can do with language are best done in poetic form.
Narrative Tension
How we write stories mirrors the strange and uncanny ways we make sense of our lives.
The Small r “republican” Tradition Offers Something to Religious Left Originalists
Read about cutting edge research from Harvard that both contradicts a “secular” understanding of modernity and supports an egalitarian economic vision of such.
Marilynne Robinson and the Absence of a Religious Left
In her essays, the award-winning novelist examines the significance, past, present, and future, of America’s missing Religious Left.
