Thursday Normally I would be delighted with a New York Times article that matched up presidential candidates with works of literature, such as Ted Cruz with Beowulf, Hillary Clinton with Persuasion, and Bernie Sanders with Around the World in 80 Days. This piece, however, strikes me as so uninformative that it’s all but useless. I’ve tried […]
Although a couple of recent articles have compared Donald Trump to Pap in “Huckleberry Finn,” I find him to be much more akin to the Duke and the Dauphin. Which is to say, an ace con artist.
Lily King’s “The English Teacher” is filled with literary lllusions, most of them thematically important.
To honor Friday’s 13th, here’s how Mark Twain handles superstition in “Huck Finn.”
Carl Rosin, a high school teacher I admire tremendously, shares below how he will be using a recent public dust-up about a Stephen Colbert tweet to help his students understand the power and danger of satire, especially as it applies to Huckleberry Finn. I love the tweet that Carl imagines could have emerged out of Huck […]
A top ten list of classics with positive depictions of parent-child relationships.
Patriarch Phil Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” shares certain characteristics with Pap Finn.
If “Huck Finn” has predictive value, the class tensions within today’s GOP will be papered over by racism.
