Sinners and Strivers

The Oxford English Dictionary of Philosophy seems to allude to the fact that the world of philosophy, for the most part, doesn’t really b...

In college I wrote my capstone course’s final paper on Angela Carter’s Night at the Circus because I was enthralled by the idea of Magic...

“People are trapped in History and History is trapped in them” Baldwin’s series of essays in Notes of a Native Son are both bold and b...

Perhaps the essence of white guilt can be summed up by one’s reaction to this novel or one's inability to fully grasp what it means. ...

What a stupid name for this collection of essays by economist Thomas Piketty. One would think it is an entire book of intensely ideologi...

"He settled down to write the big book, the novel that would secure him his place in the modern American canon. Once upon a time, it ha...

Dave Eggers is a Titan within the contemporary lit industry. Chances are you've come across one of his introductions, or a magazine o...