In a previous post, I argued that Daniel Defoe's classic novel, Robinson Crusoe, is essentially an elaborated autistic fantasy of isolation, and one whose...
2 weeks ago

My junior year of high school, my AP English teacher forced my class to read "A Modest Proposal" —a 1729 essay written by Jonathan Swift in which he...
10 months ago

The writing was classic Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal.” Imagine anyone opposed to funding a voluntary fire company who risk their lives to save lives and...
1 month ago

In his essay “Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels” (1946), Orwell emphasised how much [...
3 months ago

Patricia Horgan responds to Commissioners Piepkorn and Turnberg voting against a warming shelter for the unhoused.
1 month ago

Don Gifford's Ulysses Annotated is 694 pages long and retails for $35 on Amazon. The paperback edition is a doorstop, bulging with more ink than Ulysses...
6 days ago

The 10-year-old student from Renaissance College tells us about a book that can expand your understanding of history and life.
6 months ago

Academic studies of the merits of Taylor Swift's lyrics are not the Mickey Mouse courses you might think they are, argues Dr Clio Doyle – and disagreeing...
5 months ago

PDF | Numerous critics have studied Jonathan Swift's use of animals as satirical tools in Gulliver's Travels. However, none has devoted sufficient.
1 month ago

In "Feh," Shalom Auslander confronts being middle-aged, a time of life that, given his external circumstances, you would think he would be celebrating.
5 days ago