Articles with keyword "books"
Curio
Of Circles, Terraces, and Spheres
A little rusty on the Dante you read as an undergraduate? Like to brush up a bit on some points in the Inferno, like that “mal” something?
IQ
Impertinent Questions with Deborah Harkness
On animated pies and other curiosities of sixteenth-century life.
Feature
The Well-Wrought Textbook
The making of the midcentury English department classic, Understanding Poetry.
Feature
Henry James and the American Idea
The Atlantic Monthly helped establish the expatriate author as a literary great.
Feature
The Utterly Civilized Wilder
Despite global popularity, the enduring works of Thornton Wilder hold up to critical scrutiny.
Conversation
Historian for Hire
Phil Cantelon of History Associates talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about the profession outside the walls of academia.
Feature
The Voracious Pen of Thomas Carlyle
A young historian pours forth The French Revolution, blood and all, inspiring a generation of Victorian writers.