Thursday I came across this enjoyable tweet from one Ross Danniel Bullen, who imagines a Victorian version of the House Hunters television show: Host: I— Henry James: I should like a kitchen whose concept is – how shall I conceive of it – not closed, not in some way occluded, but bright, agape, unrestrained as […]
Pope’s “a little learning” seems dangerous at first glance but the alternative is not entirely attractive.
Oscar Wilde’s accusers but him in jail, but they were right about one thing: “Picture of Dorian Gray” is social dynamite.
Reading over the memoirs of my great grandmother, I have been impressed by how reading literature helped her get through the hard times. The authors included Tennyson, George Eliot, Susan Warner, and Charlotte Yonge.
Truth was missing in action in the GOP’s Wednesday night debate. Oscar Wilde and John Gay would have understood.
With Oklahoma resuming its executions yesterday, we need the reminders that Dorothy Sayers and Oscar Wilde give us about holding on to our humanity.
Proust and James Joyce were particularly important in helping Alison Bechdel negotiate her complex relations with her father.
Literature that moves the heart seems opposed to comedy, but sometimes they work together.
