by Lucia Knoles | Sep 2, 2011 | The Public Humanist
My father is bored, and my brother can’t understand why. After all, there is an activity for every part of the day, every day of the year. “I wish I had time to do those things,” my overworked lawyer-brother sighs. But the bingo, films, backgammon,...
by Linda McInerney | Sep 7, 2011 | The Public Humanist
Isn’t it risky? How do you dare? Where will you get the money? Aren’t you afraid of criticism? Don’t you know you are white? Who do you think you are? These are some of the questions that arise when people hear about our new project, TRUTH, a new...
by Hayley Wood | Sep 13, 2011 | The Public Humanist
In part due to inspiration provided by Caleb Rounds in his previous Public Humanist essay on rereading literature in the internet age and the new access to scholarship and current literary conversations that the Web brings to the experience of reading, I recently...
by Drew Adamek | Sep 19, 2011 | The Public Humanist
My wife and I recently spent six months traveling in the Balkans. We made stops in Spain, Croatia, Bosnia, Greece, Turkey, and had two stays in Belgrade, Serbia. As we were leaving Serbia for the first time, our landlady handed me a novel with instructions to read it...
by Mary Beth Meehan | Sep 23, 2011 | The Public Humanist
As I write this morning, wheels are turning in Brockton on a project that began for me almost five years ago. Ten-by-twelve-foot vinyl banners are being printed and rigged for hanging on the faces of downtown buildings; the buildings’ landlords are getting ready...
