In 2019 when Yale Professor Harold Bloom, probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world, died at the age of 89, I wondered, who will assume his mantle as our leading ...
A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...
One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...