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 months ago

To The Editor: I would like to thank the recent letter writer who complained about my letter criticizing of the Newtown Hook and Ladder's boot drive on Main...
2 months ago

True faith rejoices in knowing that the Life we celebrate at the stable in Bethlehem is the real answer to death.
3 weeks ago

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

The 10-year-old student from Renaissance College tells us about a book that can expand your understanding of history and life.
8 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...
7 months ago

It turns out that the great 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson and the twenty-first-century American bard Taylor Swift are related.
10 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.
2 months ago

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

Jonathan Swift had two lady friends, Stella and Vanessa, and their letters and poems inspired me to pen a musical that's coming to Dublin this week.
2 months ago