notes for a new school

The Gamecool Books podcast turns to The Amber Spyglass , the concluding volume in His Dark Materials , by Philip Pullman. Long-form discus...

Along with my friend Ben , I'm going to be launching a new site soon, devoted to video games and scholarship. We're calling it, appr...

A much more professional podcast featuring Pullman himself is up on Backlisted . The topic is not his own work, but Burton's Anatomy o...

It's tough to keep track of the news, for lots of reasons; however, the passing of Toni Morrison bears noting here, among all the others...

Having read or re-read most of Plato for a summer reading project, I also wanted to make some time to revisit Jacob Klein's Commentary o...

Though much lesser known than Tolkien, the importance of Owen Barfield's writing is powerfully attested to by Verlyn Flieger in her Spli...

Alison Gopnik's The Carpenter and the Gardener (reviewed here ) offers a number of insights on play and reading which would be worth a c...