Loss, Desire & the Search for Meaning in Life and Literature
Loss and desire–these are the themes that run through so much of what I’m compelled to write about in my …
Category Archives: Literary Criticism
Toni Morrison: Diving Into Darkness on Wings of Light
Last in my series “Brushes With Blackness” on how Black lives and Black Culture colored my Whiteness. I’d always wanted …
Dawkins and the Wonder of It All
It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it no one thinks to …
Good Prose and Good Science — Quibbling with the Masters
At first Steven Pinker was my new hero. Within the first few pages of reading his widely acclaimed “The Sense …
A Cranky Reader: What I Crave When I Read Poetry
I was invited to write a guest blog post about poetry on Luanne Castle’s Writer Site. The following was first …
“Thou Art That” – Part IV, “Some Tragic Falling Off”
Milton’s great theme in Paradise Lost is the fall and redemption of humanity. This too can be seen as “some …
