GUEST BLOG—Five Reasons to Read Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend by Nancy Carr
Dickens’s last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend, is one of his most complex and ambitious works. It includes everything you’d […]
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Convivium, Guest Blog, Journal, Travel Pursuits
GUEST BLOG—Nella Cotrupi on Trieste and Tristezza
I flip pages of my memory like the pages of the many books we’ve read together. What do I come
GUEST BLOG—The Truth of Myth by Stuart Patterson
We’ve just passed into autumn. Depending on where you are, you’ll be seeing familiar changes sooner or later—shorter days, chillier
GUEST BLOG—Truth in Storytelling with Don Whitfield
Last week on my way to the office—after an early morning foray into the part of Homer’s Odyssey where Odysseus
GUEST BLOG—Taking on the Big Questions With Two Titans of Russian Literaure
By Julia Zarankin I am very excited about returning to Classical Pursuits and leading a discussion seminar on Tolstoy and
GUEST BLOG—Welcome Short Story Readers
By Mary Bird Pioneers have always captured our imagination. My grandparents left a comfortable home and community in southern Ontario
GUEST BLOG—Prepare to Be Delighted and Inspired
By Susan Lahey Explore the visual beauty of Islamic art in the newly opened Aga Khan Museum. We are fortunate
GUEST BLOG—Armchair Travel with the Great Poets
By Lisa Pasold Winter nights, one of my greatest pleasures is looking forward to summer travels—and my favourite companions on
GUEST BLOG—The Sound of Memory in Orwell, Nabokov, and Styron with Melanie Blake
When Ann and I first discussed a seminar on literary memoir, featuring works by George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, and William
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GUEST BLOG—The Meaning of (My) Life: Shadows on Augustine’s Cave with David Schmitt
The path towards sainthood was an indirect one for our hero, Augustine. He ended up spiritually rather far from where
