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Hillbilly elegy? You mean Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751)?

Ohhh my god are you telling the story out of chronological order? Should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party? Should we invite Homer

Getting ready to ask a question related to my own research interests

A classics professor is clearly not qualified to evaluate a movie. To correctly appreciate the medium of film, you need a degree in English literature

I am proud of being an autodidact but unfortunately my instructor was incompetent

This note gets it just right. You apologise for eating the plums, express sympathy for their owner and explain your motivation for eating them. Just one note: consider offering to replace the plums. This small gesture could do a lot to smooth things over

Humanities academics tend to propose monocausal explanations for complex phenomena. This tendency is responsible for the crisis of the humanities

IMAX is the only format that renders the dialogue as dactylic hexameters. In ordinary theatres it's plain old blank verse

My main problem with Nolan's Odyssey is that it is only a copy of a copy, reality itself being merely a copy of the original Forms. Ultimately all such simulacra are a civic ill

Every nonfiction book is called like Republic of Cheese: How Gouda Saved Democracy and Created the Modern World

When people ask me for fiction recommendations, I simply hand them this. Why read a single text when you could understand mimesis itself?

Some personal news. I have accepted a job at Anthropic—the AI company—overseeing em-dash usage

I don't read classic literature because it is not relevant to contemporary life. Only the fiction published in the most recent issue of the New Yorker can really reflect modern realities

"I reached my reading goal" oh really? You determined how the work's form registers the contradictions of its historical circumstances? I didn't think so

A common mistake with breakout groups is to hover nearby, which makes students self-conscious. Instead, I have developed a technique where I actually leave the room and then surreptitiously re-enter disguised as a student myself

People say that academics spend an inordinate amount of time exploring niche research questions, but this is unfair. We also make exaggerated claims about the significance of these questions

Someone described my paper as "generative"

The culture is in decline. For gen x, a hidden recess in your workplace led to the inside of John Malkovitch's head. For gen z, it's just a series of empty spaces and some furniture

"Happy Bloomsday" Uhhh this is incredibly insensitive towards people who lack interiority. Maybe consider who your celebration of stream of consciousness narration is excluding