GUEST BLOG—Oedipus: An Identity Crisis by Zoë Eisenman
“Who are you?” – the Caterpillar, Alice in Wonderland “And you may ask yourself, Am I right? Or am I […]
Journal
TRAVEL PURSUITS—Bridging the Gulf Between Us
البعد جفاء “Distance equals disaffection.” ― Arabic proverb “Life is meant to be shared. We need each other.” ― Lailah
GUEST BLOG—Feeling at Home with Ulysses by Michael Groden
At home. Mentioning Ulysses might conjure up a range of associations – important, classic, difficult, even unreadable – but “at
GUEST BLOG—The Best City in the World to Visit by Sean Forester
Each travel experience is unique, with its own set of rich memories. But what if you had to choose a
TRAVEL PURSUITS—Cuba! The times they are a-changin
“And keep your eyes wide The chance won’t come again” – Bob Dylan Sometimes one has the chance to be an
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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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
CLASSICAL TRIVIA! Lost (or Found) in Translation
Every few years, there is a new, and generally assumed to be improved, translation of a major literary classic. Robert
Soldiers at War, Literature in Revolution
As the train crammed with soldiers crept its way past Amiens toward the front, Private Stephen Graham surveyed the scene
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
