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

Pincher Martin's Awful Afterlife: A Look at William Golding's Challenging Masterpiece

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

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

Philosophical Themes from Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate

Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Myrrha Incest Myth

Tolstoy's Depression and the Limits of Reason

Albert Camus on the Rebel in the Modern World

Elie Wiesel's Night and the Question of Evil

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