Literature

Imagine a world where we knew the name of Homer, but the poetry of "The Odyssey" was lost to us. That was the world of the early Italian Renaissance during ...

“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 ...

At this moment in history, let’s remind ourselves of all we stand to lose if we turn away ...

Every so often a careless gesture can end up becoming, in hindsight, quite a happy accident. So it ...

French publisher Librairie Arthème Fayard introduced the world to Jules Maigret, an inspector with Paris’s Brigade Criminelle, with ...

In Part 1 of this article, we spoke of the importance of young minds being exposed to great ...

There is something magical about a well-written poem. Using nothing more than ink on paper, one can experience ...

The plot of the short story is simple. Aylmer, a scientist, marries the beautiful Georgiana, whose face bears ...

“Equal Justice Under Law”: These words, written above the main entrance to the Supreme Court Building, express the ...

When I shop at Martin’s, our local grocery store here in Front Royal, Virginia, I am often struck ...

“The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, who is, was, ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was never a fan of his most popular creation, the so-called great detective ...

Reading “Anxious People” reminded me why I became such a huge admirer of Swedish novelist Fredrik Backman. He ...

So there I was at the Outer Banks of North Carolina late this summer, ensconced like a prince ...

Happening upon “The Detective in the Dooryard: Reflections of a Maine Cop” by Timothy Cotton is like discovering ...

Despite having worked for 45 years in the public school system exclusively, I believe strongly in school choice. ...

When life is chaotic, we often return home for respite. We may look to our family, faith, and ...