When I won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2023, I received a personal letter from Pope Francis, very moving, written by ...

I n 1903 George Bernard Shaw wrote Man and Superman, a comedy of manners featuring the character ... to imagine that professors of mathematics or literature understand the transmission of their ...

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On a special episode (first released on March 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated English ... the history of literature are ...

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This rhetorical choice, or ‘plot’, was of course Hegel’s as well, in whose thought, as Hayden White has pointed out, a sequence of tragedies ultimately reveals a cosmic comedy ... the first real world ...