Sustained readings
Long-form studies of writers and works, consolidated into purposeful collections.
Series · Literature & Culture
Six essays on delay, evidence, theatre, interpretation, mortality, and political disease
A six-part reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet that treats revenge as a problem of knowledge, interpretation, performance, and action.
Series · Literature & Culture
Six essays on love, haste, fate, violence, authority, and social pressure
A six-essay series reading Shakespeare’s tragedy through the social pressures that turn private love into public catastrophe.
Series · Literature & Culture
Essays on justice, memory, innocence, and the limits of empathy
A six-essay series examining Harper Lee’s novel through its competing ideas of justice, innocence, memory, race, and moral education.
Series · Literature & Culture
Essays on friendship, loneliness, the American Dream, and mercy
A focused series that reads Steinbeck’s novella through its competing ideas of care, independence, power, and survival.
Series · Literature & Culture
Six essays on ambition, prophecy, guilt, masculinity, and political power
A focused series that treats Shakespeare’s tragedy as a set of competing problems rather than a single moral lesson.
Series · Literature & Culture
Order, power, and the limits of self-reliance.
Order, power, and the limits of self-reliance.