Jonathan and Taylor: The Two Swifts

I’ll confess that I’ve avoided writing a piece like this for a long time. I was afraid a reading...

One Loose and Tenuous Thread: Reading Bridgerton with Lukács

Art always says “And yet!” to life. ~Georg Lukács I’m late to the conversation about Bridgerton—specifically, about its counterfactual...

In June 2011, almost a decade ago now, I received an email with the tantalizing subject line—“A Call for...

I am filled with the most intense dread when I imagine anyone Googling my name. Now I know what...

Now it is down to six, or rather we are seven: six poets and one bachelorette. She is the...

“I do” is a performative speech act. You say it in the midst of a marriage ceremony and then...

Little in my life prepared me for parenthood. I was not raised with a soft spot for children. My...

When the seventeenth-century poet John Dryden wanted to celebrate the English King Charles II’s ascent to the throne in...

I once heard Blakey Vermeule, a scholar I admire, describe the challenge of breaking students out of their passion...