Literature

With the hubbub about Mike Lindell as yet another victim of cancel culture, I decided to read his autobiography, “What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO,” released in ...

  In John Keats’s poems, death crops up 100 times more than the future, a word that appears ...

One of my best friends in high school was a teenage Shirley Temple. Just seeing this girl was ...

Early in March, I was sucker punched by a Russian. A dead Russian, as a matter of fact. ...

In writing “The Time Machine” 125 years ago, Herbert George Wells not only invented the catchphrase “time machine,” ...

Virginia Woolf asks us—we hear her own voice, by way of a BBC recording—“How can we combine the ...

The stormtroopers of modernity have trampled much underfoot on their monstrous march across the historical landscape. Having abandoned ...

In this time of cancel culture, how can we explain our values to those who might not want ...

In a recent article about Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe,” I made a New Year’s resolution to read old ...

One of the selling points for those who embrace far-left progressivism and even socialism is the “morality” of ...

Making a difference one animal at a time is a theme Alison Sawyer Current comes back to time ...

Open Dan Dietz's "The Complete Book of 1920s Broadway Musicals" and you can learn which show featured the ...

“There is more than one way to burn a book,” Ray Bradbury once said. “And the world is ...

“I am an uneasy man, severe with myself, like all solitaries.” — Blaise Cendrars David J. MacKinnon’s “A ...

In corrupt or brutal regimes, the truth is often a crime. The Inspector De Luca detective novels of ...

Imagine a world where we knew the name of Homer, but the poetry of "The Odyssey" was lost ...

“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey,” wrote ...

Late last year, in separate conversations with three friends, I realized how slack I had grown in the ...

A sense of place affects us throughout our lives—or at least it should. Think of walking on a ...

Throughout history, men with their backs to the wall have time and again fought against overwhelming odds rather ...

“The two most dangerous things in the world today are sincere ignorance and conscious stupidity,” Dr. Martin Luther ...

This is the fourth and final article in this particular Dante series. We remember that we read Dante ...

Around the age of 55, I discovered I could no longer trust myself to read certain poems to ...

Last year, while thumbing through books in my local thrift shop, I stumbled upon an intriguing book called ...

America sports a pantheon of folk heroes, picturesque inventions of the imagination or real-life celebrities made mythical by ...

In our last article, we saw how the issue of human free will played out in Dante’s Hell. ...

Poets often celebrate the beauty of the four seasons in their verse or employ them as emblems, symbols ...