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Taboos & The Plague: Why ‘The Decameron’ is Still Shocking

2 Apr 2021
Sigurd to Ragnar Lothbrok: The Evolution of the Norse Hero

28 Jan 2021
Beyond Ragnarok: Understanding Fate and Morality in ‘The Poetic Edda’

23 Jan 2021
Mortality and the Divine: An Analysis of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Norse Mythology’

7 Jan 2021
Review: The Uncomfortable Sympathy of Shakespeare’s ‘Titus Andronicus’

2 Jan 2021
Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’: The Irony of “Killing with Kindness”

1 Jan 2021
Dante’s ‘De Monarchia’ Analysis: Logic, Empire & The Church

27 Dec 2020
Beyond the Icon: The Humanity & Struggle in Maude’s ‘Life of Tolstoy’

17 Dec 2020
The Paradox of Nobility: Why Dante’s Language Theory Fails Modern Logic

3 Dec 2020
‘A Promised Land’ Review: Obama’s Humanity, Legacy & The Trump Era

1 Dec 2020
The Feast of Reason: A Review of ‘The Convivio of Dante Alighieri’

6 Nov 2020
Puppet or Hero? Fate vs. Free Will in Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’

18 Oct 2020
Poetry vs. Prose in ‘La Vita Nuova’: Dante’s Fusion of Intellect

3 Oct 2020
What Would Dante Think of Boccaccio’s Biography? | ‘Life of Dante’ Analysis

26 Sep 2020
Why ‘The New Jim Crow’ Offers No Solutions (And Why You Must Read It)

21 Sep 2020
Dante’s Vision of God vs. Satan: Why ‘The Divine Comedy’ Isn’t a Proof

12 Sep 2020
‘The Color of Law’ Analysis: Shattering the Myth of De Facto Segregation

9 Aug 2020
What We Get Wrong About Hate: Lessons from ‘Stamped from the Beginning’

21 Jul 2020
Is Watson Unreliable? A Review of ‘The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol 1’

13 May 2020
Is ‘The Comedy of Errors’ Just a Joke? A Modern Review

2 Nov 2018
Meeting the King: A Tribute and Review of ‘Blues All Around Me’

21 Oct 2018
The Flawed Masterpiece: Unpacking Tolstoy’s Debut Trilogy

3 Feb 2018
‘Keep the Aspidistra Flying’: Why Gordon Comstock is Orwell’s Most Unbearable Lead

20 Feb 2017
Why the Ending of Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’ Doesn’t Work

4 Apr 2015
Why ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ Fails: A Critical Shakespeare Analysis

16 Nov 2014
Forget the Symbolism: Why the Characters Drive Steinbeck’s ‘The Wayward Bus’

19 Oct 2014
The Chaos of Cupid: Control & Inversion in A ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’

18 Oct 2014
Telling vs. Showing: Why ‘The Man Who Laughs’ is Hugo’s Heaviest Lecture

11 Oct 2014
Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’: Is State Justice Actually Just?

15 Apr 2014
Is Ishmael Lying? A Psychological Look at Ahab and ‘Moby Dick’

11 Apr 2014