If you don't engage a book's symbolic language, you aren't getting half of what it has to offer. Like luggage, symbolism needs to be unpacked.... Read More
Stories are more than just characters and plot. They’re a collaboration between author, reader, and culture, sometimes contradictory and always symbolic. To understand them, you can’t just look at the surface—you need to dig through every layer.... Read More
Books aren’t just meant to entertain us. They help us see from new perspectives. So take a second to think. Then read on here. ... Read More
Albert Einstein is literally the face of the STEM education so highly regarded in society today. A lot of us would be shocked to discover that he actually championed a liberal arts education.... Read More
Bamboozled! It means to be hoodwinked, flimflammed, hornswoggled -- all fun & fancy words that mean to be tricked, deceived in underhanded ways. Why is this Fun & Fancy word more important than ever?... Read More
W hy study literature? Why read fiction? Why spend one’s life teaching it? What’s the point? This piece from guest essayist Abram Van Engen... Read More.
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