Wordsworth and the Paradox of Self-Writing
When I give myself over to the self-writers I love most, I am transformed.
Let Us Now Praise the Periodical Cicadas
The pulsating song of billions of seventeen-year cicadas.
More than a Matter of Taste
by
Joshua Hren
Posted on June 2, 2021
Image: Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Henry James’s fiction shows how aesthetic misjudgments can be connected to moral vice.
Lawn Care
If you get out in your yard with a push mower, everyone who passes wants to talk with you about it.
No Mere Acquaintances
Renewing your weaks social ties might make your closest ties stronger.
The Serf’s Story
Like the tenants of the Bishop of Worcester, they know that in a tightening job market they have leverage.