There is a sweet disposition that wants justice to arise from good intentions and to be executed in a world full of sweetness and harmony. The yearning is for a justice that is never opposed. The difficulty of establishing justice, however, is that people are not just. They only want justice when they are not …
I am reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses all the way through, beginning to end, for the first time this summer. I have read bits and pieces, and I have looked up certain stories or references in order to become familiar with them, but I’ve never read the whole thing. Being the extrovert that I am, I didn’t …
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the first installment of a new weekly column from our friend Adam Andrews. The column is called “Ex Libris with Adam Andrews,” and we begin with Dostoevsky.
