This Is Water
By Alicia J. Rouverol | 04.14.09
When David Foster Wallace took his own life on Sept. 12, 2008, aftershocks reverberated throughout the literary world. Part genius, part literary icon, and large part social critic, Wallace drew the attention of readers and critics across the globe. (more…)
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Columbine
By April Austin | 04.13.09
Ten years after Columbine, the memory of a suburban high school under siege from two teenage gunmen has not faded. The details that found their way into press reports at the time only heightened the sense of shock and did little to explain the killers’ motives. (more…)
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A Great Idea at the Time
By Josh Burek | 11.20.08
Did you read “Treatise on Conic Sections” by Apollonius of Perga in college? What about works of Epictetus? Plato, at least? If you didn’t, and you’re feeling pangs of intellectual inferiority, don’t despair. You can still buy the “Great Books of the Western World.” (more…)
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Whatever It Takes
By Stacy Teicher Khadaroo | 09.10.08
Putting a child on a “conveyor belt” might seem like a cold image. But in the hands of Geoffrey Canada, it’s a metaphor cradled in unrelenting love. (more…)
