Persuasion
Netflix’s film assumes that Jane Austen’s novel must be irrelevant now and modernized to fit current sensibilities.
Dante’s Indiana
The second entry in Randy Boyagoda’s Dante-esque trilogy carries the reader through a rollercoaster of a purgatorial journey.
The Value of Uselessness
Philosophers Michael Oakeshott, Johan Huizinga, and Josef Pieper can show us the wisdom of play.
Choices at Play
An interactive story editor examines how in-game tensions between story and play teach us about real world agency.
Guessing Games
A fantasy football enthusiast considers modes of prediction and the fun of imagination.
Looking East in Winter
We would do well to read Rowan Williams alongside Robin Wall Kimmerer, just as we should read Maximos the Confessor alongside Thomas Aquinas.