Category: World Literature

Time Management

The famous author of western stories, Louis L’Amour, wrote a very marvelous memoir called The Education of a Wandering Man. No book is better than this one for telling us how to find the time…

Essential and Limited

And there, indeed, is one of the great and marvelous features of beautiful books (and one which will make us understand the role, at once essential and limited, that reading can play in our spiritual…

Experience and Expectation

Let me also recall Samuel Johnson, whose famous biography by his devotee Boswell is, I think, something along with the Bible that you should read a bit every day, if only for the delight of…

Riveting

It’s good for me to be the citizen of a state in which there are eight and a half million prime ministers, eight and a half million prophets, and eight and a half million messiahs….

Chaos of the Now

Yet of Plutarch, the Ancilla to Classical Reading says, “He has indubitably had more European readers than any other pagan Greek and has been the greatest single channel communicating to Europe a general sense of…

Engagingly Readable

Dostoevsky is not a writer to struggle through or with, but one who tries to make his work as interesting and exciting—and as readable—as possible. His works raise some of the deepest moral and philosophic…

Today’s One-Liner (#303)

Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it,   which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education….

Today’s One-Liner (#302)

A novel is a trap, a maze into which we are drawn by the plot until we are swallowed up by the narrative, becoming  its prisoner and confidante.  –Abram Tertz,  A Voice from the Chorus,…