Manipulation and Deception in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”

A high school essay by Juan Albarran that…

It’s Complicated: Me and James Joyce in the Age of Facebook

In which a contemporary Irish novelist…

‘Pride and Prejudice’ and the perils of (mis)reading

We love Elizabeth and Darcy because they’re not…

Not another damn post about “Gatsby”! — Everyone

The Plight of Self-Trust and Seeking the Divinity Within

Teachings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Kurt Vonnegut: Pessimism, Shotguns, and Lemonade

I remember the night I was first introduced to Kurt Vonnegut’s writings. My dear friend Jacob and I were sitting in a Starbucks; I was drinking a chai tea latte while Jacob enjoyed his peppermint mocha. He always sprinkled nutmeg in his…

Gatsby is about social mobility.

But America still has tonnes more of it than Britain.

What Walden Teaches

Thoreau’s opposition to corporal punishment haunts his classic book.

Freshly graduated from Harvard in the fall of 1837, David Henry Thoreau, aged twenty, accepted a teaching position at the Center Grammar School in…

Growing up with Gatsby

Everything we read gets filtered through who we are at the time.