In his underappreciated essays, Thomas Nagel counsels us against taking the world, our ourselves, too seriously ...

Homer, the enigmatic author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, profoundly shaped Western literature. Despite his immense influence ...

Cisneros, awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2015, said she wants Texas A&M students to understand that the world is ...

Mathematician Sarah Hart has always loved to read — and she argues literature and math are fundamentally intertwined. She ...

Explore the unique social and sexual freedoms of Spartan women, their roles in society, marriage customs, and the practice of ...

Ulysses has been described by the literary critic Harold Bloom as “Shakespeare-soaked”. In the novel’s opening episode, Buck Mulligan sends up Stephen Dedalus’s unorthodox views about Hamlet: “He ...

Unthinkable: The voice of the Catholic Church in Irish education should be commended for raising the question of ‘purpose’ ...

So since the greatest task of a novel is to show the greatest truth about ourselves and our lives, and since that truth is Christ, therefore, the greatest novels are the ones that reveal Christ, and ...

Plato was a famous Greek philosopher from ancient Athens who shaped Western philosophy. He was a student of Socrates and later taught Aristotle. Plato wrote many works in the form of dialogues that ...