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Metabolizing the Beautiful

Dwight A. Lindley III

Why Literature Still Matters:Beauty After the Apocalypseby jason m. baxtercassiodorus, 82 pages, $16 My father, a mild-mannered physician then in his forties, used to become positively explosive on Sunday...

Love in the Academic Ruins

Dwight A. Lindley III

The English Department is sick unto death. The signs are all there: an aging tenured professoriate; a generation of young PhDs unable to land workable academic jobs; an even...