Faith, Fiction, Friends

The world’s great poets not only wrote poetry still read and studied today, but they also helped shape the culture of their countries and in...

William Pritchard is the Henry Clay Folger Professor of English, Emeritus, at Amherst College. He received his A.B. degree from Amherst and ...

It was a conversation that went much like you might expect.  “I don’t understand it,” the executive said. “They hate us. They hate what we d...

Dana Gioia may be one of the most productive writers / poets working today. He has six poetry collections, seven essay collections, two tran...

  I’ve read   Nightwatch , the young adult novel by   John Leax   (1943-2924), and I’ve read his collection of short essays on writing,   Gr...

From 1968 to 2009,  John Leax  (1943-2024) was an English professor and poet-in-residence at  Houghton College  in New York. He was a poet, ...

I’ve been trying to recall when, or how, I first ran across the poetry of  Benjamin Myers . I read his  Elegy for Trains: Poems  in early 20...

Hillsdale College history professor   Bradley Birzer   is a co-founder of   The Imaginative Conservative website , which I read daily and ha...

About 15 years ago, I was having a conversation with a friend who handled issues for an agricultural company. He was doing some handwringing...

Is the poet a revolutionary, a radical helping to prod, drive, and lead humanity to create a more just world? The early William Wordswo...

It’s rare to find a collection of essays that range intelligently over a broad array of subjects, are easily readable and engaging, and...

It was my great blessing to have had excellent English teachers from seventh grade through college. They each had a gift of teaching, b...

In 1916, Oxford University Press published English Critical Essays: Nineteenth Century, selected and edited by Edmund Jones. It was vo...