The teacher asks, “Who will tell me where you are in the textbook?”
Category: Authorial-Ideological
Author without Authority: Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage
Nature knows its name is “creation,” its Author, “Creator.” Introduction Stephen Crane would have loved The Matrix. The 1999 film
Something at Work in my Soul: Curiosity for the Forbidden as it Leads to the Monstrous in Frankenstein
Humans have a problem. We cannot be trusted. In horror movies, for instance, some sadistic scientist may twist a new
Biographies: The Choices We Make
We choose to read for various reasons. At times, our concerns are political or social or both. In a library
An Essay on Essays
“Let us not be like those people who always seem to be pallbearers at the funeral of the past. Let
Ice-Ax to the Frozen Sea
A former student, now a PhD scholar in his 30’s, asked me to send him ideas for biographies to read.