Monthly Archives: September 2014

Rosh Hashanah: Weave Real Connections

By Robin Bates | Published: September 21, 2014

Marge Piercy poem about gardens functions as a reflection upon how we spend out time and work. It’s appropriate, in other words, for Rosh Hashanah.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 20, 2014

Adrian Peterson’s mistreatment of his four-year-old son has echoes of the caning described by Rudyard Kipling.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 19, 2014

John Lane’s poem “Sweet Tea” is an encomium on southern hospitality.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 18, 2014

In “Sense and Sensibility,” Austen gets us to reflect on the attractions and dangers of Nature.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 17, 2014

Euripides’ “The Bacchae” can be read as a parable of climate change denialism.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 16, 2014

Roger Cohen of the New York Times turns to a Kipling poem to express his despair about the world.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 15, 2014

The Frankfurt School studied how culture gets subsumed by capitalism. We need to start reading Adorno and Benjamin again.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 14, 2014

Emily Bronte explores Jesus’s injunction to forgive seventy seven times.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 13, 2014

Aphra Behn wrestles with novel ways to deal with potential abuse in her play “The Rover.”