Great World Literature, Improved by Birders
Literature is great. World literature is greater. Great world literature is greatest of all. But even great world literature can be improved by taking a birder’s perspective. “For...
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Literature is great. World literature is greater. Great world literature is greatest of all. But even great world literature can be improved by taking a birder’s perspective. “For...
By Aman Basha Ruminations on three films and their respective relationships with popular works of literature. It seems the second week of August 2026 would forever exist in my memo...
Fresh from Forrester’s London events, take a look at the provocative ideas, executive debates, and reading recommendations that got people talking.
The author recommends poetry and post-apocalyptic works.
This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand with the masses turning the individuals within them on each other, stirring certa...
Poetry remains one of the arts most capable of approaching the unknown without ever fully surrendering it to explanation. A poet may come close to what he seeks, yet refuses the ea...
Review of 'What's So Great About the Great Books?' by Naomi Kanakia
British philosopher, author and broadcaster Bryan Magee hosted a 15-part series titled 'The Great Philosophers'
We no longer live in a time when college freshmen get shocked by much of the reading material assigned to them. Counterintuitively, the texts that do retain their power to disturb...
Not every story is meant to make us good, but every compelling story shows the contrast between good and evil. Literature uses fiction to depict truth and vice to reveal virtue.
There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows free to speak. That space expands in solitude. To create anything — a poem, a pai...
Intellectual Things by Stanley Kunitz
Books show us what it is like to be another and at the same time return us to ourselves. We read to learn how to live — how to love and how to suffer, how to grieve and how to be g...
Critical theorists like Theodor Adorno may have overreached in claiming that all mass culture is mediocre, mechanized propaganda made to justify the status quo. But that doesn’t me...
“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know,'” the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska observed in her magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech. But despite all...
I got in an argument once with a guy who was dismissing white, Anglo-Saxon culture, saying it was overrated and overrepresented. He thought Americans needed to learn about other cu...
We usually think of the writer as a solitary being, whereas if you actually look at the record, books spring up from complex ecosystems. As the great writer Juan Rulfo said when qu...
A liberal arts education led the way to careers, books, art, relationships – and writing lives well lived.
No politics is the general rule,...
How art invented humanity. The post Art, Love and Everything Else appeared first on The Good Men Project.
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Timely questions lurk at the heart of connoisseurship: What counts as originality, what value do we place on it, how do we protect it?
I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a dozen couplets of cliches that touched nothing, changed nothing in me....
“The Occidental Book of the Dead,” “Luna, Phoenix, Queen,” “The Minimalist,” and “The Decadent Movement.”
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