Literature
National Library of Congress Announces New United States Poet Laureate
On September 15th, 2025 the National Library of Congress appointed Arthur Sze as the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
Literature
Literature
What are banned books? The Top 10 Most Challenged Literary Works
Banned Books Week, October 5th to 11th, recently passed, bringing more attention to the slogan 'Buy Banned Books'. Hence the question: what are the most banned books in the U.S. and why does this matter?
Literature
Post-Modern Satire Gets Angst. It Invented Angst.
Sometimes, meaning seems meaningless. When there is neither Cat nor Cradle to be seen, how can we trust the prejudices of a taught but false reality? Kurt Vonnegut asks this question in his expansive religious and scientific satire novel, Cat's Cradle.
Literature
To Be or Not To Be
Is still the open ended question in this day of modern online discourse and never ending opinions, but do we need to answer it differently and change our mode of conversing with others?
Literature
We are Primitive Man
Rachel Kushner's novel Creation Lake shows us that liberal activists want the same things that humans have always wanted, and conservative forces just want to be left alone to do as they please. The differences in political extremes often lead to the same end points.
Culture
Girl, So Detective
It is so confusing to be a girl raised on Nancy Drew, Miss. Marple, and J.B. Fletcher when you realize how scrutinized these characters are today, considering their historical context.
Culture
Culture is a Cult
Mona Awad's "Rouge" shows us the way in which culture becomes a cult which we have to choose to escape for our own sanity.
Literature
The Loneliness Epidemic Isn’t Just Modern. One Novel Proved It Decades Ago.
Back in the day, loneliness was not an epidemic. It was a way of life. Now, we are lonelier than ever, but do we already have the cure?