The Friend Zone
Mary Wollstonecraft’s ideas on what makes a marriage tick were downright radical for their time
Words, Words, Words
What does the advent of ChatGPT mean for already beleaguered teachers?
The Affair Rekindled
Remembering the plight of Dreyfus and the effect it had on a young Marcel Proust
Meditations on Marcus
The philosopher-emperor who reigned during an age of pandemic and war
The Bloom Has Faded
Reforming the Western canon may not go far enough
Love in the Time of Camus
What the French writer can teach us about surviving a pandemic
The Long 20th Century of Terror
A history in ten books
The Fabulist
A literary critic’s ugly deception
My Life as a Door
Not exactly Yeats, but noteworthy nonetheless
Plunging to Earth
Once the sport of daredevils, skydiving now offers it existential thrills to grandmothers, pudgy geeks, and even the occasional college professor
