In 1974, female employees of the New York Times were preparing a class-action gender discrimination lawsuit against their employer when the Times promoted society editor... Read More

The renaissance of Virginia Woolf still blooms. Successively reborn into our polemical age of interdisciplinary feminist studies, her witty and passionate rebellion against... Read More

In his essays, American poet Yvor Winters (1900-1968) has described the poetic discipline as “the richest and most perfect technique of contemplation.” Perhaps better known... Read More

Sam Pickering, the author of this, his 10th book of essays, was the model for the Robin Williams? character in the 1989 film Dead Poet’s Society. He is an English professor at... Read More