Category: analysis

• Rockin’ in the Cheap World: On the Limits of Rhetoric at the DNC

  Aug 28

  I both love and hate rhetoric. The way it’s taught in philosophy departments, rhetoric and sophistry are the two great foes of philosophy. But in poetry and literature, there’s something… more ›

• “The sea was more important now than the shore.”

  Nov 6

  Since starting To the Lighthouse I’d been noticing all kinds of references to subjects and objects, which was prompted chiefly by this passage: Whenever she [Lily] “thought of his [Mr.… more ›

• Lucky’s Speech

  Mar 27

  It was years—decades even—from the time I first read Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot before seeing a production of it. In that time, and really since the beginning, I was fascinated with… more ›

• Half a Rainbow

  Feb 7

  “That V-2 on the way?” “A4, yes.” He hangs at the bottom of his blood’s avalanche, 300 years of western swamp-Yankees, and can’t manage but some nervous truce with their… more ›