July 15, 2015
Old News: The Consequences of our Cultural Obsession with Newness
There’s nothing new about our love of newness. “Men love that song which is newest on their ears”—that’s Homer, writing as early as Europe’s second epic poem. The problem […]
December 28, 2013
Epic Fail
The most inflated reputation in literary history came about as the result of genuine literary merit crossed with a transnational empire and language. Many people would assume I speak of […]
September 16, 2013
“The Authoress of the Odyssey”
Was the Odyssey written by a woman? The theory has been raised in the past—and long before the rise of late 20th-century feminism, which is when, historically, you’d expect […]