Literature

Classics Meditations By Marcus Aurelius It’s doubtful that Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius envisioned his personal notes would shine for centuries. But words are powerful, and his reflections on Stoic philosophy ...

A member of Congress wakes one night and finds Lucifer standing at the foot of his bed and ...

Do we want to be better people? Do we want our character to improve? And do you want ...

What distinguishes a good thriller novel from the best? Brad Thor. He’s been hailed as the “undisputed king ...

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless ...

In “Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama,” the hefty volume once used by my Advanced Placement ...

Spying is a risky profession. For the 14th-century English undercover agent-turned-poet Geoffrey Chaucer, the dangers—at least to his ...

Anyone with a mild interest in both the Bible and the Chinese language and characters might want to ...

Mark Twain ends the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” with these words: “And so there ain’t nothing more to ...

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, ...

Traditions help form the structure and foundation of society, help define our past, shape us today, and provide ...

Math is not often associated with poetry, but it should be. “Poetry,” from the Greek “poiesis,” meaning “to ...

Though the England of his time was famous for its eccentrics, one man in particular captured the attention ...

You may know the story. President Lincoln, frustrated in his effort to end slavery while preserving the Union, ...

Edgar Allan Poe was “doomed to seethe down his soul in a great continuous convulsion of disintegration, and ...

Television’s Fred Rogers, the creator and chief actor of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” won accolades and fame for his ...

In Part 1 of this article, we looked at how Keats in his poem “On First Looking Into ...

There is a seasickness that is more like a spell than a sickness. It is a yearning, a ...

When we think of contemporary heroes, figures we admire for their courage when confronted by physical danger or ...

Sohrab Ahmari’s new book, "The Unbroken Thread," follows his acclaimed spiritual memoir, "From Fire by Water," in which ...

How far can words reach? While celebrities like Victor Hugo, Henry James, George Meredith, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky were ...

So long as there are lovers in the world, there will be poetry. In fact, it might be ...

“One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved ...

Sublimity is a word rather like “mystical” in that it is difficult to define exactly what it is, ...

So I’m shambling around online, looking for some inspiration to write about literary heroines, fictional females who inspire ...

Throughout human history, involuntary exile was often a common punishment—a means of getting rid of troublesome citizens. The ...

Education is a journey, and, as with any journey, there must be some initial idea or inkling of ...