A Journey into Homer’s World
Like Tantalus, classical scholars are forever glimpsing things they cannot taste, or experience, themselves. Phalanx warfare was so common in ancient Greece that most freeborn males...
A Work in Progress
Has the meaning of feminism ever been more jumbled than it is today? Any woman speaking up or talking back, whether about work, sex, criticism, culture,...
Turbulent Music, Turbulent Life
Early in E.M. Forster’s novel Howards End, the Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, attend a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. For Helen, the flighty younger sister,...
Whose Freedom?
Last fall the student council at the University of Wisconsin unanimously voted to demand the removal of a statue of Abraham Lincoln from the campus, on...
Designs for Living
The Memorial to the Fallen of the Lješanska Nahija Region, designed by Svetlana Kana Radević, stands on a small hill in Barutana, Montenegro. Concrete tendrils rise...
Ashbery’s Cliffhangers
When we say that a poem is “good”—not with the dubious implication that it’s not great but with genuine satisfaction—are we unconsciously echoing Genesis, “And God...
Stalin’s Lawyers at Nuremberg
It was surely a sign that the rule of law was finding its way into international relations when, after a world war of unmatched brutality during...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for September 2, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $2.99 Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins Get This Deal $2.99 Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas...
Actually, I Want To Go Where Nobody Knows My Name
Leave signs of struggle. Leave signs of triumph.And leave signs. -Cheryl Clarke I seek out gay bars in every city I visit. In Denver I find myself...
A Rwandan-Namibian Millennial Tries to Find Himself in Cape Town
Rémy Ngamije’s novel The Eternal Audience of One is a coming-of-age story about identity, family, race, and migration set mainly in post-apartheid Cape Town. Séraphin Turihamwe...
