The person who shares my birthday, back in 1533, is Michel de Montaigne, who invented the personal essay. He inherited great wealth and a title through the efforts of his great-grandfather ...

An edition of the Divine Comedy from 1564 recently discovered at the British Library in London including notes and comments ...

In 12 essays, Lipson mines her experience as a case ... a concept reinforced by the likes of Montaigne and Plato. A. Few places in our culture have done justice to the incredible life-changing ...

Thoreau proclaimed friendship “the secret of the universe,” and noted, “I can remember only two or three essays on this subject in all literature ... “My friends have come to me unsought,” Emerson ...

Trump’s war on my colleagues and students helped me understand the play’s political caution, which is not just about bad ...

Essay on Holi Festival: Holi, the festival of colours, is one of the most joyful and widely celebrated festivals in India. It marks the victory of good over evil and the arrival of spring. Holi is ...

I often cite classicist Daniel Mendelsohn’s insight that when your father dies, your accounting degree won’t help you process the experience to underscore the humanities’ true value: their unique ...

“The optimism of pessimists is the most interesting kind”, TJ Clark suggests in Those Passions, an exhilarating essay collection summing up a lifetime’s thinking about painting and politics ...

The hyper-courtly Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote a verse satire in the mid-1530s that begins: ‘My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin,/They sang sometime a song of the field mouse.’ Wyatt goes on to ...