The American Scholar

The Guest List: Authors Discuss Their Favorite Works

May 31, 2017

  Here is article written by The American Scholar’s editors. They asked their favorite authors to discuss favorite works. Note: Links are embedded in each article. For example: Ten Tales of Migrations, Long and Short Paul Salopek From haiku to…

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Lives of the Philosophers

May 30, 2017

Here is an article written by Amanda Vaill for The American Scholar in which she focuses on the postwar thinkers who stripped the world of preconceptions To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *     *  …

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“The way to write is throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

May 13, 2016

In First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process, Robert D. Richardson shares the very best of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s thoughts about the creative process in general, and about writing in particular. There is no doubt in Richardson’s…

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Vannevar Bush’s “As We May Think”: One of most important essays ever written

February 14, 2016

An essay appeared the July 1945 issue of what was then the Atlantic Monthly magazine that is now widely considered one of the most important essays in the history of world literature. It was written by Vannevar Bush and I…

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A conversation with the essayist and editor Joseph Epstein

August 29, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from Katie Bolick’s superb interview of Joseph Epstein for The Atlantic, dated June 30, 1999. It happened once that GQ magazine was to photograph the editor and writer Joseph Epstein in his classroom at Northwestern…

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His Hour Upon the Stage

December 17, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Douglas L. Wilson for The American Scholar during which he explains why, although a lifelong reader of Shakespeare’s plays, Lincoln had reservations about how they were presented. To read the complete…

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We Are One With the Sun

July 29, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Josie Glausiusz in which she explains that, during the summer Soltice in England, she realized that we are all one with the Sun and “we” includes druids as well as…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 7/15/13)

July 21, 2013

  I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you:   BOOK REVIEWS On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling Michael Dirda Reading the Room: Group Dynamics for Coaches and…

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The Bombmaker’s Burden

July 18, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from Shirley Streshinsky‘s review of Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center, written by Ray Monk and published by Doubleday. She explains why winning the atomic race failed to bring Oppenheimer peace of mind. She…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 6/17/13)

June 23, 2013

  I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim Digital State:…

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