Could it be otherwise? Probably not, at least at the moment.
essays
I remember hearing the news and thinking that this was going to end badly for everyone. I had no idea just how bad things would get.
The special challenge of presenting a poet whose work is neither new nor widely known.
Memories are important because—and when—they are selective, and few.
Could we ban cell phone photography in museums and at performances?
Much of what we know is unspeakable, and language is but one expressive medium.
Consider another problem of motivation in the house of fiction: why characters write.
Kundera chose to take the long view, reflecting on the relationship between the Jews and Europe, and, more broadly, on the Jews and that European, literary spirit to which he saw himself heir.
The literature classroom is an unusually fit environment in which to pursue “the deepening and sharpening of emotional powers.”
Reconstituting the totality of a person knowing only the “parts” of his or her mind is equally nonsensical.