The Seduction
After years of favoring the endurance-test approach to teaching literature, a professor focuses on how to make books spark to life for her students
Shylock, My Students, and Me
What I’ve learned from 30 years of teaching The Merchant of Venice
The Potency of Breathless
At 50, Godard’s film still asks how something this bad can be so good
Why Read George Eliot?
Her novels are just modern enough—and just old-fashioned enough, too
