Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Myrrha Incest Myth

Was George Orwell Really a Socialist? (yes, he was!)

Pincher Martin's Awful Afterlife

Lady Chatterley's Lover and D.H. Lawrence's Views on Sex

On the Trials and Punishment of Oscar Wilde

Ralph Waldo Emerson's Advice on Reading and Writing

D.H. Lawrence Hated Masturbation and Porn (and maybe you should too)

Some Baltasar Gracián Wisdom For Today

Thucydides, the Melian Dialogue, and Keeping the (Russian) Jungle at Bay

A Look at Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate

Tolstoy's Faith and His Tortured Search for Meaning

Camus and Rebellion

Elie Wiesel's Night and the Question of Evil

Emerson's "Circles" as a Metaphor for Human Experience