The “Shadow Shining” of Achilles
Further Thoughts on Parables, Fables, Stories, and Tales
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Great Books
Raft Building and the Great Conversation
The glory of literature is that it makes the Great Conversation possible across the ages, between men and women from different worlds.
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8 Habits of Every Great Reader
Reading is a complicated activity. Sometimes we do it for edification, other times for pleasure, sometimes simply to fulfill an assignment. Sometimes a combination of all three. Some of us mark up our books; others long for the pristine unmarked pages of a brand new edition. Some of us take pride in our personal libraries
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What to Do about That Horrible Yale Decision
This generation, with all its access and opportunity, advocates destruction rather than creation, and erases its past rather than building upon it. So what should do?
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Killing Ophelia: Variations on the Theme of the Older Brother
It is said that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who distill people into two kinds of people, and those who do not. I am a member of the former group and my favorite way to do said categorizing utilizes two archetypes within the prodigal son narrative: Prodigals and Older Brothers.
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The Inconsolable Secret and the State of Men
How an eighty-year old children’s book offer hope and peace in a lonely world
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2017 Close Reads Literature Bracket
Determing the Best of the Best
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8 Starters That Can Guide Conversation on Any Great Book
Or: Don’t let your students be fledglings forever
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Our Favorite First-Reads of 2016
With 2016 behind us, now is a good time to reflect. So we asked several of our staff members and contributing writers to share their favorite book that they read for the first time last year. Here are choices from Josh Gibbs, Brian Phillips, Lindsey Brigham, Matt Bianco, Brian Phillips, and David Kern. PARADISE LOST
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Take Up Your Cross and Read Hard Books
Many in our culture believe that we can eradicate misfortune through political reform, but those who study the humanities know that these efforts do not succeed.
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Translation and the Classical Mind
In reading books and discussing ideas, it is easy to forget that persons put these things into our possession, and that one day the books and ideas of our own age will be possessed by later generations
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What Are You Re-reading?
One of the hardest things about getting older is the decreasing time ahead of you to catch up on reading. Even reading one hundred books a year for the next twenty years is not going to do it. I feel about my To-Be-Read pile as my husband does about the salaries of major league baseball
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