Reading Like a Citizen
Civic education is resurgent in America, but why are the language arts missing from the curriculum?
By Gregory Laski
Who Is the Samurai, and Who Is the Prisoner?
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s films show that when it comes to history, some blanks aren’t meant to be filled
By Jessa Crispin
Fractured Odysseus
The psychiatrist Jonathan Shay’s books on Homer are the key to Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey
By Colin Dickey
“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” by Edna St Vincent Millay
Poems read aloud, beautifully